{"id":95749,"date":"2019-09-03T11:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T18:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/coming-soon-to-a-battlefield-robots-that-can-kill"},"modified":"2019-09-03T11:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T18:22:31","slug":"coming-soon-to-a-battlefield-robots-that-can-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/coming-soon-to-a-battlefield-robots-that-can-kill","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon to a Battlefield: Robots That Can Kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/coming-soon-to-a-battlefield-robots-that-can-kill.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow\u2019s wars will be faster, more high-tech, and less human than ever before. Welcome to a new era of machine-driven warfare.<\/p>\n<p>W allops Island \u2014a remote, marshy spit of land along the eastern shore of Virginia, near a famed national refuge for horses\u2014is mostly known as a launch site for government and private rockets. But it also makes for a perfect, quiet spot to test a revolutionary weapons technology.<\/p>\n<p>If a fishing vessel had steamed past the area last October, the crew might have glimpsed half a dozen or so 35-foot-long inflatable boats darting through the shallows, and thought little of it. But if crew members had looked closer, they would have seen that no one was aboard: The engine throttle levers were shifting up and down as if controlled by ghosts. The boats were using high-tech gear to sense their surroundings, communicate with one another, and automatically position themselves so, in theory, .50-caliber machine guns that can be strapped to their bows could fire a steady stream of bullets to protect troops landing on a beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow\u2019s wars will be faster, more high-tech, and less human than ever before. Welcome to a new era of machine-driven warfare. W allops Island \u2014a remote, marshy spit of land along the eastern shore of Virginia, near a famed national refuge for horses\u2014is mostly known as a launch site for government and private rockets. But [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}