{"id":186015,"date":"2010-01-15T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5449325"},"modified":"2010-01-15T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T03:40:00","slug":"us-military-discharges-part-of-robot-army-over-budget-issues-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/186015","title":{"rendered":"US Military Discharges Part of Robot Army Over Budget Issues [Military]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/firedbot.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/500x_firedbot.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s rough for robots in the armed services lately. Lack of funding is forcing the United States military to end the Army&#8217;s Future Combat Systems program and eliminate many robotic soldiers, including autonomous helicopters and mine-sniffing transport vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that some of the remaining funds are being used to upgrade existing programs in an attempt to integrate the technology &#8220;in a fiscally responsible manner.&#8221; I say we just plain need to start working on a way to call some Autobots in for help. [<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/75541-army-to-terminate-robotic-vehicle-aircraft-programs\">The Hill<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2010\/01\/army-short-circuits-robotic-future\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WiredDangerRoom+(Blog+-+Danger+Room)\">Wired<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2010-01\/us-military-terminates-several-robotic-warriors\">PopSci<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p> <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=ab8e217ac5e10a564ee05788ebfa8b9a&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=ab8e217ac5e10a564ee05788ebfa8b9a&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/LZFlHbFy9HiaYs9u_0aIigvF1VI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/LZFlHbFy9HiaYs9u_0aIigvF1VI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/LZFlHbFy9HiaYs9u_0aIigvF1VI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/LZFlHbFy9HiaYs9u_0aIigvF1VI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=rQVj2zzOc_w:j6xx1SNWdik:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=rQVj2zzOc_w:j6xx1SNWdik:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=rQVj2zzOc_w:j6xx1SNWdik:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=rQVj2zzOc_w:j6xx1SNWdik:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=rQVj2zzOc_w:j6xx1SNWdik:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=rQVj2zzOc_w:j6xx1SNWdik:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/rQVj2zzOc_w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s rough for robots in the armed services lately. Lack of funding is forcing the United States military to end the Army&#8217;s Future Combat Systems program and eliminate many robotic soldiers, including autonomous helicopters and mine-sniffing transport vehicles. The good news is that some of the remaining funds are being used to upgrade existing programs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}