IT’S been sixty years since writer Isaac Asimov dreamed up his laws governing
robot behaviour. But the message still hasn’t sunk in. Researchers in Thailand
have developed a robot security guard that comes armed with a gun, and has no
qualms about whom it shoots.
Called “Roboguard”, the gun-toting sentinel is designed as a cheap
alternative to a human guard. It can be ordered to fire at will, or told to
check first with a human via a secure Internet connection.
As they appeared in Asimov’s science fiction writings in 1940, the three laws
of robotics were meant to prevent…
