South Korea To Deploy ED-209
Friday, January 5th, 2007Samsung and Korea University have teamed up to defend the universe from aliens by developing a machine-gun equipped sentry robot complete with “two cameras: one for day-time and one for infrared night vision, zooming capabilities, a speaker for notifying the intruder, sophisticated pattern recognition to detect the difference between humans/trees, and a 5.5mm machine-gun.”
We think the distinction between humans and trees is pretty important.
The weapon should retail for around $200,000 USD and will be available late 2007.
The South Korean government aims to deploy these to maintain a healthy environment along its borders with North Korea.
The video shows the weapon in action (we apologise in advance for the “Pirates of the Caribbean” soundtrack during the second half of the clip).