Robot Cannon Kills 9, Injures 14

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Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 18, 2007 @03:13PM

An anonymous reader writes "An auto-targeting, auto-reloading cannon goes out of control during a South African military drill — killing 9 soldiers, and wounding 14 more. Officials can't figure out whether to blame jammed hardware, software glitches... or the start of the robot uprising. One thing's for sure: it's not the first time robo-weapons have started acting dangerously odd."
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Reminds me of .... (Score:2)

by Archangel Michael (180766) writes:

that famous scene in Robocop.
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  by HTH NE1 (675604) writes:
  
  Yes, that [imdb.com] scene [imdb.com] prompted me to tag the story "ed209".

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