I say
Just like those hovering droids in half-life 2!
Aficionados of the killer-robot world barely get time to catch their breath these days. Yesterday was no exception, with two military droids making their debut. First up was iRobot, makers of the famed "Roomba" autonomous vacuum cleaner - and also the "Packbot" tracked crawler-droid, known to the US Army as SUGV and noted for …
are enough people dying in the world already; all these technological ways to kill are scary.
Just fight with swords and shields; at least then when you have killed someone and their blood is in a pool at your feet you know what it means to have taken a life. Sitting at a monitor playing kill the "terrorist" is awful.
Im leaving at 4.
iRobot.... Is that the best name they could come up with, i can just hear the conversation:
"What shall we call it"
"Well its a robot"
"how about destructodroid?"
"ooh ooh i know lets call it steve the robot"
"hmm, no thats.."
"i know i know lets call it iRobot",
"ooh yeah that reminds me of Will Smith"
"yeah, hey that Carlton was funny in Fresh Prince!"
"yeah he did that dance"
"yeah"
I agree with your comment but...
...the problem is getting the OTHER guy to fight with a sword and shield.
Adversaries have this annoying habit of escalation. Bringing a gun to a knife fight, using long-range rockets to counter your short range aircraft, nuking your conventional forces, ect.
...Russia will just have to get working on that clone army of mutant bear soldiers it has been secretly planning since ClonAid's Moscow cloning vat center was shut down in 2003.
The only response to robot warfare is genetic engineering...or the arcane arts. One or the other.