The world is growing more and more futuristic by the day, what with Taser International, an electronic stun gun manufacturer announcing its partnership with IRobot corporation in a project to manufacture robots that can actually direct electric shocks at people.
This shocker of a robot will be sold to the police and military as a nonlethal weapon that can be used to control unruly mobs and violence. The companies have announced that they have developed a prototype which they are to put on display in a conference in Chicago.

Meanwhile some people have expressed their fears that projects like these may ultimately aid robots in taking indepedent kill decisions.
John Pike, director, GlobalSecurity.org said:

``It’s one more step in that direction, it is not the first step in that direction, but I think at some point toward the end of the next decade, you’re going to start seeing RoboCops, or a Terminator, we may see autonomous robots capable of inflicting lethal force.'’

With the rolling out of stuffs like these, the day when attack robots can reprogram themselves and take control with independent combat scheduling capabilities is not far away.

Via: slipperybrick.com