Robot Watch

This battle bot isn't quite as threatening as some of the other recent efforts we've seen by the military-industrial complex to ignore the wisdom of sci-fi and create military robots who will inevitably enslave their human masters. Its saving grace is that it appears to require a human pilot sitting in the cockpit. Still, one could imagine these devices evolving, post-rebellion, into something like the Cylon raider animal/robot hybrids. Vigilance!

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/04/robot-watch/44155/