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07-13-2016, 03:06 PM
The ethics of using 'bomb robots' as killing machines
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When Dallas police ******rs told their chief, David Brown, that they planned to attach an explosive to a remote-controlled robot and kill the man who they believed had fatally shot five ******rs on Thursday night, he gave his approval, and told them **t to "bring the building down."
That's how the chief described the situation at a press conference on Monday. The goal is always to "make sure we do everything we can to go home to our loved ones," he said.
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The plan worked, marking what is believed to be the first time a United States police department killed a person by attaching an explosive to a robot.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/13/police-robot-bomb-future-ethics/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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When Dallas police ******rs told their chief, David Brown, that they planned to attach an explosive to a remote-controlled robot and kill the man who they believed had fatally shot five ******rs on Thursday night, he gave his approval, and told them **t to "bring the building down."
That's how the chief described the situation at a press conference on Monday. The goal is always to "make sure we do everything we can to go home to our loved ones," he said.
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