With Terminator 3 having just come out a few weeks ago, maybe it wasn’t the best time for the Defense Department to unveil Project Alpha, which is charged with figuring out how the US military can develop armies of autonomous robots by the year 2025. At least they won’t look like the Terminator:
“The robots will take on a wide variety of forms, probably none of which will look like humans,” explained Dr. Russ Richards, Project Alpha’s director. “Thus, don’t envision androids like those seen in movies. The robots will take on forms that will optimize their use for the roles and missions they will perform. Some will look like vehicles. Some will look like airplanes. Some will look like insects or animals or other objects in an attempt to camouflage or to deceive the adversary. Some will have no physical form – software intelligent agents or cyberbots.”
