Cue famous Terminator theme. For those of you out there worried about robots controlling the world, your fears have been confirmed. DARPA has just listed a new interesting posting. The post calls for research for a program called ARM (skynet, lol), and the building of a robot that can “hold a grenade in one hand, and pull the pin with the other hand autonomously”. Now if this was for a new Roomba, it wouldn’t have caused alarm. However, this is the way military applications for robotics in the future are going to be heading.

Meet talon. The US Army is now employing 100 TALON robots equipped with chemical, gas, temperature, and radiation sensors for deployment in Iraq.