[hedonist]

"Real" military applications, perhaps not.

"Pseudo-military" operations, i.e. in our rapidly militarizing civilian police forces, perhaps not so far off.

[robotresearcher]

You think a police robot is easier than a soldier robot? Why?

Both services are deploying robots as fast as they can. Thousands are in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[hedonist]

Cost of training per role is probably a pretty good metric.

[robotresearcher]

The cost of training a human pilot is higher than a shoe-store clerk. Software already pilots planes very well, but working in a shoe store is very hard for a robot.

[finnw]

> Thousands are in Iraq and Afghanistan

Those are not humanoid.

[robotresearcher]

Right, but the grandparent suggested that we'd see such robots in police applications before military. I'm asking why he thinks this is so. We are not seeing this with the non-humanoids.