It would become cheaper to produce weapons other than guns to fend off the robots, which would in turn make a nation more vulnerable to a human assault (if you use bullets to kill armored robots the murder of one robot would probably cost more than the robot did).

in fact, why didn't they do that in the terminator movies?

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I doubt there will be efficient robot assault troops that would work totally off of AI, they would need to be commanded, or controlled by humans. Actually I see it being kinda like a real life video game.

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WTF do you guys thing that all armed forces are as well armed as US military?! We'll have human soldiers for sure, because not everyone is as rich as the US! Some armies around the world don't even have airplanes! Not to mention self-guided rockets and stuff! While US army has sofisticated comps, smart weaponry, stealth bombers and all the high tech stuff, many armies and guerrillas use only Kalashnikovs and 50 year old weaponry! And robots would be very vulnerable, because they would need a large main computer somewhere, and that could be destroyed by one Tomahawk missile! And no, why would someone spend billions of dollars on making fully autonomic fighting robots, when he has a lot of soldiers who are ready to die for free! World is not yet that advanced.We'll probably see that in a bit more distant future, atleast in 200 years.

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Even crappy weaponry by 2100 most likely will be far beyond ours, but that wasn't really my point. I agree that some places may very well have outdated guerrilla armies; I was talking about well armed/equipped countries. It's likely that the computer would be somewhere overseas or networked in a way that immediate destruction would be nearly impossible, also.

The reasons for robot armies becoming mainstream are as follows:

1. Not having humans die (at least not on our side) is more appealing to the public.
2. Soldiers cost quite a bit to maintain; in the era of cheap robotics robots could be quite a bit cheaper (of course not in the very present)
3. Higher destructive power/efficiency

Post edited at 12:46 pm on June 23, 2007 by DoomMaker

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