{"id":2453,"date":"2021-02-26T12:45:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T19:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.srl.org\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2022-04-05T18:48:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T18:48:47","slug":"killer-tele-operated-robots-are-on-the-radar-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.srl.org\/index.php\/2021\/02\/26\/killer-tele-operated-robots-are-on-the-radar-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer Tele-Operated Robots are on the Radar Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article from Boing Boing&#8217;s David Pescovitz mentions the ground breaking shenanigans SRL were up to about a quarter century ago!  If SRL were the first civilians to have web-controlled lethal robots in 1996 David was the first target for such systems experimenting with the Air Launcher in San Francisco being controlled by people in Tokyo!  <a href=\"https:\/\/srl.org\/lab.html\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SRL did it first!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"KgmwFwwkJC\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2021\/02\/25\/artists-outfitted-robot-dog-spot-with-a-paintball-gun-in-commentary-on-futuristic-killer-robots-just-as-nydp-deploys-the-same-robot.html\">Artists outfitted robot dog Spot with a paintball gun in commentary on futuristic killer robots, just as NYDP deploys the same robot<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Artists outfitted robot dog Spot with a paintball gun in commentary on futuristic killer robots, just as NYDP deploys the same robot&#8221; &#8212; Boing Boing\" src=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2021\/02\/25\/artists-outfitted-robot-dog-spot-with-a-paintball-gun-in-commentary-on-futuristic-killer-robots-just-as-nydp-deploys-the-same-robot.html\/embed#?secret=UJmNwHlYWu#?secret=KgmwFwwkJC\" data-secret=\"KgmwFwwkJC\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here is a screenshot of the web controller from 1997 &#8211; this controlled the Track Robot, direction, speed, and the arm\/grabber:<br \/>\n<!--<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.srl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/javacontrols-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.srl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/javacontrols-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2460\" width=\"342\" height=\"352\"><\/a>--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.srl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/track.png\" width=\"342\"><\/p>\n<p><!--<img src=https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/screenshot-112.jpg?fit=1&resize=620%2C4000&ssl=1 width=500>--><\/p>\n<p>Here is a screenshot of the web controller from 1997 &#8211; this controlled the Air Launcher<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.srl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/air.png\" width=\"342\"><\/p>\n<p>All internet telerobotics apps to control SRL machines written by Karen Marcelo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article from Boing Boing&#8217;s David Pescovitz mentions the ground breaking shenanigans SRL were up to about a quarter century ago! If SRL were the first civilians to have web-controlled lethal robots in 1996 David was the first target for such systems experimenting with the Air Launcher in San Francisco being controlled by people in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,9,11,1],"tags":[33,80,130,167,238,602,601,255,259,309,436,528,545,570,571],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.srl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.srl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.srl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.srl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.srl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.srl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2763,"href":"https:\/\/archive.srl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions\/2763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.srl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.srl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.srl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}