Samsung is a famous brand because of its work with electronics and household appliances, from a smart fridge to a Galaxy smartphone. But do you know that the brand is also attached to at least one autonomous guard robot produced for the South Korean military? The name of this robot is SGR-A1, and his creation is a Samsung subsidiary work called Samsung Techwin.
It is important to note that Samsung Techwin no longer exists, because the company acquired by Hanwa Group in 2014 and changed to what is now called Hanwa Techwin. However, before this transition occurred, however, Samsung’s subsidiary was responsible for the creation of a machine rifle robot that sat guard (and maybe still sitting down) on the South Korean border with North Korea.
Samsung Techwin developed a robot along with the University of Korea, and according to Stripes, the unit was deployed in early 2010 to the demilitarization zone (DMZ) which divided the Korean Peninsula. The region was made at the end of the Korean War in 1953 and walked around 150 miles along the 38th parallel, a region that also acted as a literal demarcation line between the two countries.
The autonomous question
SGR-A1 is deployed on the South Korean border side as an autonomous guard that all weather. Individual units from guards were reported to cost $ 200,000 each developed in 2006, and each was intended to help and finally replace human guards. Global Security reports that Samsung Techwin claims their system is designed to replace humans who can be disturbed by bad weather or exhausted, and that each unit has the ability to use several types of prevention.
Samsung Techwin SGR-A1 includes onboard speakers and microphones so that the friendly army can deactivate weapons with an approach. Unknown individuals will face alarms that are heard followed by no developed rubber bullets, followed by real metal bullets with a robot onboard machine gun. Some sources report that SGR-A1 can be programmed to remind human operators before the deadly round is used, but others explain that robots can be operated without human decision making.
The lethal weapons and ethics of the SGR-A1
SGR-A1 is equipped with a Pistol of the Daewoo 5.56 mm precision machine. Hairy Death-Trade Robot with various sensors and cameras, including laser scouts, and infrared thermographic cameras.
Pattern recognition software allows SGR-A1 to distinguish between humans, animals, and other objects. During the day, this system is capable of identifying and tracking a few targets as far as 2.5 miles (4 km), or about half the distance at night.
Because of the clear fitness of the situation, the exact number of these promises who keep guards in the past or continue to guard today is still classified to the public. As a video demonstration above, SGR-A1 is not a joke. As a debate about the ethical nature of the robot killer rampage, we will argue whether the creation of Samsung Techwin SGR-A1 must continue the next list of our technology.
