Listen up contractors, Uncle Sam wants you to develop a “Multi-Robot Pursuit System” to go after “non-cooperative” humans. Before you utter a resounding “wtf?” consider this: last year iRobot cooked up a deal with Taser International to mount stun weapons on military robots. Wait…what? Now we will have roaming packs of bots tasing hippies? Pretty much. Steve Wright, expert on police/military tech from Leeds Metropolitan University said of pack-hunting bots: What we have here are the beginnin
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