Self healing robots? Not exactly, but still ominous
SELF-HEALING ROBO9TS MEANS ABSOLUTELY NO HUMAN INVOLVEMENT NEEDED--NOT EVEN TO REPAIR OR REPROGRAM THESE MACHINES WHICH ARE INTENDED TO REPLACE HUMANS.
The French have found a way to program robots to get over having malfunctions and keep going despite them. If you ever saw Robocop, he was able to fix and calibrate himself after getting shot up (damage was still there but he could keep functioning) and the new programming allows robots to keep working even if they are missing legs or have other serious malfunctions. This would be really bad on the battlefield because it would no longer be possible to just damage a part of a robot and have it quit, you would actually have to successfully blow it's brain completely out which could easily be made more than an order of magnitude more difficult than just hitting a stepper motor or some other vulnerable part. This would make robots more like Terminator 1.
Read more here http://www.livescience.com/50988-damaged-robot-heals-itself.html
SELF-HEALING ROBO9TS MEANS ABSOLUTELY NO HUMAN INVOLVEMENT NEEDED--NOT EVEN TO REPAIR OR REPROGRAM THESE MACHINES WHICH ARE INTENDED TO REPLACE HUMANS.
The French have found a way to program robots to get over having malfunctions and keep going despite them. If you ever saw Robocop, he was able to fix and calibrate himself after getting shot up (damage was still there but he could keep functioning) and the new programming allows robots to keep working even if they are missing legs or have other serious malfunctions. This would be really bad on the battlefield because it would no longer be possible to just damage a part of a robot and have it quit, you would actually have to successfully blow it's brain completely out which could easily be made more than an order of magnitude more difficult than just hitting a stepper motor or some other vulnerable part. This would make robots more like Terminator 1.
Read more here http://www.livescience.com/50988-damaged-robot-heals-itself.html