Oct 23 2008Great, Just Great: We're All As Good As Dead

Well folks, it's been nice knowing you, but the end is nigh. The Pentagon recently put out a request to contractors to build a "Multi-Robot Pursuit System" to "search for and detect a non-cooperative human." Hoooooly shit.
"What we have here are the beginnings of something designed to enable robots to hunt down humans like a pack of dogs. Once the software is perfected we can reasonably anticipate that they will become autonomous and become armed.
We can also expect such systems to be equipped with human detection and tracking devices including sensors which detect human breath and the radio waves associated with a human heart beat. These are technologies already developed."
Wow, just wow. And you thought I was half kidding about the robot apocalypse thing, didn't you? Well I wasn't. I was whole not kidding. We're f***ed. I mean, this is just awful. Imagine: packs of armed BigDogs and LittleDogs hunting "non-cooperative" humans. Run for the hills! And also, a couple of you slow runners distract the beasts with some blatantly uncooperative behavior.
Packs of robots will hunt down uncooperative humans [newscientist]
Thanks Nolan, I've never been more depressed in my life.

Reader Comments
1. C-Basstian - October 23, 2008 1:11 PM
Seen it First
2. Christophe - October 23, 2008 1:12 PM
First!
3. Uh Oh - October 23, 2008 1:12 PM
Only bad things can come of this.
4. LSDiesel - October 23, 2008 1:14 PM
So that's what those were. Hm.
By the way, my one neighboor that lives down the street, you know the guy I score all my smack from? Yeah, well I haven't seen him in a few days.
5. lulu - October 23, 2008 1:15 PM
we really are all going to die by human eating robots, that's a fact.
C-Basstian & Christophe - you suck donkey balls
6. Sharpie - October 23, 2008 1:19 PM
Heres a link to these things in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww
7. Meaty_Urologist - October 23, 2008 1:20 PM
Really? You're afraid of this? This isn't any more frightening than, say, the two-party system.
*pisses pants*
8. C-Basstian - October 23, 2008 1:20 PM
lulu... im more of a female nipple kinda guy but its nice of you to think of me
9. radlad - October 23, 2008 1:20 PM
Oh snap......
10. Uncle Eccoli - October 23, 2008 1:21 PM
This reminds me of the little seeker spiders from Minority Report.
11. C-Basstian - October 23, 2008 1:22 PM
if youve seen these things in action you know how loud and slow they are... they couldnt catch a cold... cause there robots
12. boredom - October 23, 2008 1:24 PM
those things are cool as hell. I so want one
13. ShitBitch Carl - October 23, 2008 1:25 PM
Looks like it's time to start memorizing books.
14. mamadough - October 23, 2008 1:25 PM
leave it up to the military to design shit that will eventually back fire on them, leading to chaos and destruction, and the "where did we go wrong?" comments. i hope they forget to program in the part that separates knowing the difference from a child and a non-cooperate human. lawsuits galore. then they will begin to feed only on human flesh. Jesus, this sounds like a bad B horror movie.
15. Megan - October 23, 2008 1:27 PM
A bit creepy that we want to develop robot hordes... though I think that a person could currently easily outrun these. This reminds me of the end of Fahrenheit 451, I think.
16. chris - October 23, 2008 1:32 PM
they are probly put AI in them in later years. thats win they dicieed not to listen to us humans and kill us
im guessin in like 2015-2045 is win theyll be puting ai in them also theres robots that there making to run realy fast..
17. LSDiesel - October 23, 2008 1:33 PM
Haha, these would be great for getting revenge on an ex. Or maybe I'm just an obsessive stalker who wants to know who she's boinking.
No, no....I'm over her, I'm over her, I'm over her, I'm over her....
18. Foobar - October 23, 2008 1:33 PM
mmmmm Robot Whores....Hope they are cheap, and can take a golden shower.
Oh wait you said hordes. Never mind.
19. egleaves - October 23, 2008 1:33 PM
Somebody had better come up with a pocket sized EMP device, and soon.
20. Daisy - October 23, 2008 1:35 PM
Fake!!!
Thats an obvious photoshop job. You can tell because the shadows are all wrong.
This kinda looks like the robot apocalypse scene from the movie Never Back Down.
21. Sharpie - October 23, 2008 1:37 PM
You guys ever wake up in the morning and wonder...How did I become so gay? I ask myself that every morning and can not figure out the answer, I wonder if my uncle molesting me has anything to do with it, just a thought!
22. Sharpie - October 23, 2008 1:38 PM
@21 fail
23. Sharpie - October 23, 2008 1:42 PM
@22 fail
24. LSDiesel - October 23, 2008 1:44 PM
@24, Fail. Hey....
25. Sharpie - October 23, 2008 1:46 PM
@22 win
26. C-Basstian - October 23, 2008 1:48 PM
ooohhh and im last this has just been a big day for me, yes it has
27. asiantom - October 23, 2008 1:49 PM
I hope this happens.
28. asiantom - October 23, 2008 1:51 PM
Also, these robots have probably wanted to kill the people kicking them over in videos. They just didn't have the proper equipment.
29. C-Basstian - October 23, 2008 1:55 PM
ok so maybe i wont be last
30. Sharpie - October 23, 2008 1:58 PM
Don't you have anything better to do? you really think people are going to believe I talk shit about myself? are you in the 6th grade? using the library's computer? F***in shit. Grow up. seriously. do you really have that much time to not only post your comments but to impose people too? you must be a Geekologie junkie huh. Listen i'll break it down for everyone so they all understand. YOU have no girlfriend, no boyfriend, live with your mommy and daddy, never been laid, and cant think of anything better to do then go to Geekologie and just prayyy that there is someone to impose. I've seen people like you get ripped off by therapy. Its almost like your life is so god damn boring that if you didnt have your neighbors router to steal internet off of then you wouldn't have a life at all. because we all know you live online. your probably pale. fat as f*** and forgot what the sun looks like. Go outside, look up and see if he replies. I bet you wont get an answer cause only the devil can hear you. the devil doesn't care to hear your shit either. he'd probably resurrect your aborted baby then kill it again. shameless self centered, cold blooded creators of earth are what rip this planet apart. We have no right because of people like you. so remember in he distant future that you will not get what you want because you have given nothing but shit to what god created. you contributed nothing but your lame pointless thoughts and god can see that. I really hope your structure will be able to withstand the pressure of reality when the time comes. To everyone else that is still reading this........Life has been corrupted from the get go and you all are to blame. keep in mind it take energy, and a mind to create what has not been created. and so far i don't think anyone has lived up to the expectation intended. instead you want to search for an answer rather then create it yourself. if you don't understand the reality of what has been spoken then please.....please.....please... do the world a favor and end your life while its not to late.
31. Elmo - October 23, 2008 2:00 PM
Happy Nut-Kicking day!
we're all screwed...
32. el - October 23, 2008 2:00 PM
Alright GW, so I guess when this happens, if we're the last ones left, I'll help you repopulate. But mostly just bc I know you wouldn't cheat on me.
33. Right Fury - October 23, 2008 2:01 PM
The company that picks up this contract will be cyberdine systems no doubt.
http://www.cyberdinesystems.com/cyberdine/
34. Thumperchica - October 23, 2008 2:08 PM
These could be useful to carry drunks home from bars...
@Sharpie - So young, so angry, damn that rap music ;-)
35. Sharpie - October 23, 2008 2:09 PM
@34 Thumper you should be one to talk. you obviously know nothing about anything. i could be 1032342 years old and still be younggg makes no sense to you though right, cause your all oblivious to your surroundings.
36. Sharpie - October 23, 2008 2:12 PM
*thumps chest Tarzan-style*
You drunken passed-out forehead! Me Sharpie!
RAWR, bitches!
37. eb - October 23, 2008 2:17 PM
NEEDS MORE STORY TAGS.
Stop slacking, Geekologie Writer.
38. Davo - October 23, 2008 2:21 PM
Watching the video at first made it seem like I was watching two people in a retarded donkey suit trying to walk. Watching it try to gain control on the ice was hilarious, almost more so than watching people fall...
39. DrNecropolis - October 23, 2008 2:23 PM
Yeah these things are awesome. DARPA- First we gave you the internet, now we give you human hunting robot dogs (but can they find my bottle of jameson?). Though this could lead to world robot domination, at least we won't end up like planet of the apes!
40. Tha Eloquent 1 - October 23, 2008 2:27 PM
Damn sharps....you went off on that dude..lol
41. Sharpie - October 23, 2008 2:29 PM
Had to let the "people" know. you know.... i'll hit you up when I get home. i got some pizza left over from last night if you want some..
42. Tha Eloquent 1 - October 23, 2008 2:34 PM
guess thats really you saying that cause only we know what pizza is
43. Sharpie - October 23, 2008 2:36 PM
hahaha, thank god there is real people out here
44. Momboelitist - October 23, 2008 2:36 PM
I remember the last couple of years when they were teaching these giant headless hell hounds to walk. It doesn't matter how fast they go if they are relentless. Remember the melty guy in Terminator? He just kept coming, actually they all kept coming. I've been a supporter of the resistance for 2 years now and mark my words, they are going to take over. Once Skynet becomes self aware it's all over but the kissing ass goodbye part.
Imagine you're walking thru an old burned out building and one of these things is on the other side of the wall. It detects your heartbeat and wham! smashes right thru the wall to get you!
Hold me....no, lower....a litttle lower.....
45. Thumperchica - October 23, 2008 2:41 PM
How is fighting on the internet like running in the Special Olympics?
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Even if you win, you're still retarded...
Keep at it boys - makes you look oh-so-manly
46. boredom - October 23, 2008 2:43 PM
so Sharpie (30) how do you REALLY feel?
Oh and ThumperChica I took third last year in them there olympics so am I allowed ot fight to?
47. supernova_hq - October 23, 2008 3:06 PM
Time to start carrying my hand-held directional EMP emitter!
48. Sharpie - October 23, 2008 3:35 PM
Yeah so anyway see that red building in the background? I totally face f***ed my mom in there. Hot.
49. LSDiesel - October 23, 2008 3:39 PM
@47, do you read other people's comments? Because that was def. said already. And @48, I thought your mom wasn't into anal?
50. Sharpie - October 23, 2008 3:42 PM
Oh f*** I get it! Your saying my mom's face looks like an ass! Well your right. And I like to slip my dink in it.
51. Mike - October 23, 2008 4:29 PM
these have been around for a long time. I think there was a Discovery Channel special on it like 2 years ago. Geez. Get better material! This site is for lazy douches that can't visit like 6 other sites.
52. Top Fag - October 23, 2008 4:35 PM
Don't you have anything better to do? you really think people are going to believe I talk shit about myself? are you in the 6th grade? using the library's computer? F***in shit. Grow up. seriously. do you really have that much time to not only post your comments but to impose people too? you must be a Geekologie junkie huh. Listen i'll break it down for everyone so they all understand. YOU have no girlfriend, no boyfriend, live with your mommy and daddy, never been laid, and cant think of anything better to do then go to Geekologie and just prayyy that there is someone to impose. I've seen people like you get ripped off by therapy. Its almost like your life is so god damn boring that if you didnt have your neighbors router to steal internet off of then you wouldn't have a life at all. because we all know you live online. your probably pale. fat as f*** and forgot what the sun looks like. Go outside, look up and see if he replies. I bet you wont get an answer cause only the devil can hear you. the devil doesn't care to hear your shit either. he'd probably resurrect your aborted baby then kill it again. shameless self centered, cold blooded creators of earth are what rip this planet apart. We have no right because of people like you. so remember in he distant future that you will not get what you want because you have given nothing but shit to what god created. you contributed nothing but your lame pointless thoughts and god can see that. I really hope your structure will be able to withstand the pressure of reality when the time comes. To everyone else that is still reading this........Life has been corrupted from the get go and you all are to blame. keep in mind it take energy, and a mind to create what has not been created. and so far i don't think anyone has lived up to the expectation intended. instead you want to search for an answer rather then create it yourself. if you don't understand the reality of what has been spoken then please.....please.....please... do the world a favor and end your life while its not to late.
53. Super Gay - October 23, 2008 4:35 PM
Don't you have anything better to do? you really think people are going to believe I talk shit about myself? are you in the 6th grade? using the library's computer? F***in shit. Grow up. seriously. do you really have that much time to not only post your comments but to impose people too? you must be a Geekologie junkie huh. Listen i'll break it down for everyone so they all understand. YOU have no girlfriend, no boyfriend, live with your mommy and daddy, never been laid, and cant think of anything better to do then go to Geekologie and just prayyy that there is someone to impose. I've seen people like you get ripped off by therapy. Its almost like your life is so god damn boring that if you didnt have your neighbors router to steal internet off of then you wouldn't have a life at all. because we all know you live online. your probably pale. fat as f*** and forgot what the sun looks like. Go outside, look up and see if he replies. I bet you wont get an answer cause only the devil can hear you. the devil doesn't care to hear your shit either. he'd probably resurrect your aborted baby then kill it again. shameless self centered, cold blooded creators of earth are what rip this planet apart. We have no right because of people like you. so remember in he distant future that you will not get what you want because you have given nothing but shit to what god created. you contributed nothing but your lame pointless thoughts and god can see that. I really hope your structure will be able to withstand the pressure of reality when the time comes. To everyone else that is still reading this........Life has been corrupted from the get go and you all are to blame. keep in mind it take energy, and a mind to create what has not been created. and so far i don't think anyone has lived up to the expectation intended. instead you want to search for an answer rather then create it yourself. if you don't understand the reality of what has been spoken then please.....please.....please... do the world a favor and end your life while its not to late.
54. Never Laid - October 23, 2008 4:36 PM
Don't you have anything better to do? you really think people are going to believe I talk shit about myself? are you in the 6th grade? using the library's computer? F***in shit. Grow up. seriously. do you really have that much time to not only post your comments but to impose people too? you must be a Geekologie junkie huh. Listen i'll break it down for everyone so they all understand. YOU have no girlfriend, no boyfriend, live with your mommy and daddy, never been laid, and cant think of anything better to do then go to Geekologie and just prayyy that there is someone to impose. I've seen people like you get ripped off by therapy. Its almost like your life is so god damn boring that if you didnt have your neighbors router to steal internet off of then you wouldn't have a life at all. because we all know you live online. your probably pale. fat as f*** and forgot what the sun looks like. Go outside, look up and see if he replies. I bet you wont get an answer cause only the devil can hear you. the devil doesn't care to hear your shit either. he'd probably resurrect your aborted baby then kill it again. shameless self centered, cold blooded creators of earth are what rip this planet apart. We have no right because of people like you. so remember in he distant future that you will not get what you want because you have given nothing but shit to what god created. you contributed nothing but your lame pointless thoughts and god can see that. I really hope your structure will be able to withstand the pressure of reality when the time comes. To everyone else that is still reading this........Life has been corrupted from the get go and you all are to blame. keep in mind it take energy, and a mind to create what has not been created. and so far i don't think anyone has lived up to the expectation intended. instead you want to search for an answer rather then create it yourself. if you don't understand the reality of what has been spoken then please.....please.....please... do the world a favor and end your life while its not to late.
55. Jerod Cykoski - October 23, 2008 4:36 PM
Don't you have anything better to do? you really think people are going to believe I talk shit about myself? are you in the 6th grade? using the library's computer? F***in shit. Grow up. seriously. do you really have that much time to not only post your comments but to impose people too? you must be a Geekologie junkie huh. Listen i'll break it down for everyone so they all understand. YOU have no girlfriend, no boyfriend, live with your mommy and daddy, never been laid, and cant think of anything better to do then go to Geekologie and just prayyy that there is someone to impose. I've seen people like you get ripped off by therapy. Its almost like your life is so god damn boring that if you didnt have your neighbors router to steal internet off of then you wouldn't have a life at all. because we all know you live online. your probably pale. fat as f*** and forgot what the sun looks like. Go outside, look up and see if he replies. I bet you wont get an answer cause only the devil can hear you. the devil doesn't care to hear your shit either. he'd probably resurrect your aborted baby then kill it again. shameless self centered, cold blooded creators of earth are what rip this planet apart. We have no right because of people like you. so remember in he distant future that you will not get what you want because you have given nothing but shit to what god created. you contributed nothing but your lame pointless thoughts and god can see that. I really hope your structure will be able to withstand the pressure of reality when the time comes. To everyone else that is still reading this........Life has been corrupted from the get go and you all are to blame. keep in mind it take energy, and a mind to create what has not been created. and so far i don't think anyone has lived up to the expectation intended. instead you want to search for an answer rather then create it yourself. if you don't understand the reality of what has been spoken then please.....please.....please... do the world a favor and end your life while its not to late.
56. WOW I'm GAY - October 23, 2008 4:37 PM
Don't you have anything better to do? you really think people are going to believe I talk shit about myself? are you in the 6th grade? using the library's computer? F***in shit. Grow up. seriously. do you really have that much time to not only post your comments but to impose people too? you must be a Geekologie junkie huh. Listen i'll break it down for everyone so they all understand. YOU have no girlfriend, no boyfriend, live with your mommy and daddy, never been laid, and cant think of anything better to do then go to Geekologie and just prayyy that there is someone to impose. I've seen people like you get ripped off by therapy. Its almost like your life is so god damn boring that if you didnt have your neighbors router to steal internet off of then you wouldn't have a life at all. because we all know you live online. your probably pale. fat as f*** and forgot what the sun looks like. Go outside, look up and see if he replies. I bet you wont get an answer cause only the devil can hear you. the devil doesn't care to hear your shit either. he'd probably resurrect your aborted baby then kill it again. shameless self centered, cold blooded creators of earth are what rip this planet apart. We have no right because of people like you. so remember in he distant future that you will not get what you want because you have given nothing but shit to what god created. you contributed nothing but your lame pointless thoughts and god can see that. I really hope your structure will be able to withstand the pressure of reality when the time comes. To everyone else that is still reading this........Life has been corrupted from the get go and you all are to blame. keep in mind it take energy, and a mind to create what has not been created. and so far i don't think anyone has lived up to the expectation intended. instead you want to search for an answer rather then create it yourself. if you don't understand the reality of what has been spoken then please.....please.....please... do the world a favor and end your life while its not to late.
57. LSDiesel - October 23, 2008 4:38 PM
@52-56.
I don't think "fail" even begins to describe it.
58. boredom - October 23, 2008 4:44 PM
well SOMEONE knows how to copy and paste
59. Sharpie - October 23, 2008 4:51 PM
Yes I can cut and paste! Cut and paste pictures of dinks on my face!
60. Lieutenant Bob - October 23, 2008 4:52 PM
........
I think we're scraping the bottom of the internet here. And that's saying something.
61. Jo Mama - October 23, 2008 4:53 PM
they should make one of these with a hard on collider built on.
62. LSDiesel - October 23, 2008 4:59 PM
Haha, I totally forgot about the hard-on collider. Any more people kill themselves to escape death lately?
63. _revolution - October 23, 2008 5:13 PM
these faintly remind me of the hunters in Half Life 2: episode 1.... somebody needs to make a real life impulse riffle...
64. michael - October 23, 2008 5:33 PM
@15 - yes, fahrenheit 451 does ring a bell. i'm sort of glad i won't be around to witness the rise of totalitarian societies around the globe. individual freedoms? bye bye!
65. goofzilla - October 23, 2008 7:14 PM
dude, we're already there. i'm memorizing the entire encyclopedia britanica.
66. goofzilla - October 23, 2008 7:15 PM
dude, we're already there. i'm memorizing the entire encyclopedia britanica right now.
67. Hades - October 24, 2008 12:17 AM
They look pretty much like the hunters in half life two episode two ! http://www.nofrag.com/images/002ddc.jpg Scary !
68. Lessssss - October 24, 2008 2:18 AM
These things scare the shit out of me. The first time video of them was posted, I had nightmares for a week.
69. poopskidoodle - October 24, 2008 9:47 AM
GW Dude please stop with all the robots are going to kill us crap its getting old and I'm kind of sick of hearing about it. most of the robots you show us are pretty sweet but its just getting kind of lame with the whole robot taking over the world shit. I love your site I check it maybe two or three times a day but lets back it off a little.
70. LSDiesel - October 24, 2008 11:48 AM
poopskidoodle: Permission to suck a big porker, sir!
GRANTED SOLDIER!
71. Mochaeh? - October 24, 2008 10:20 PM
Hello, Fahrenheit 451
72. Feisty Cadaver - October 25, 2008 12:02 AM
Wow, Orwell's 1984 and Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 all rolled into one.
73. peewee - October 25, 2008 9:50 PM
Its legs look like the arms from those toy punching nuns.
74. The Guy With The Thing - October 29, 2008 7:36 PM
It's official. We're all doomed.
75. Anonymous - December 10, 2008 10:19 PM
You have 15 seconds to comply.
76. )Talk( - December 24, 2008 1:42 PM
AAAAAHHH!!!!!!!!!! Fahrenheit 451 has come to life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! shit now we have to start burning the books!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
77. Sunshine - February 10, 2009 10:06 PM
It was creepy watching that video clip. True they aren't frightening things now but just wait til the technology jumps ahead like every other bit of technology we have. Cell phones, look at their progression in 5 years time. That alone is a ridiculously fast improvement! What decides that a person is a "non cooperative human" anyway? Is it thinking differently? Arguing with general politics? Is it a run away convict? the fact is we should be very conscious of what our government is capable of and ready to destroy the power they are creating. Or arguably we will live in a world of Fahrenheit 451
78. K Dole - March 19, 2009 5:57 PM
Does this remind anyone else of Fahrenheit 451?
Very unsettling.
79. Ivan - June 18, 2009 8:51 AM
I have discovered all these threats just today.
I'm just impressed about this, and the definition of "non-cooperative" human.
If a robot asks you to kill yourself and you reject you become a non-cooperative human? ... I guess answer is yes.
see you until a machines cache up my hert frequency.