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You Have Twenty Seconds to Comply -- Ian Sample  -- Spacer  -- September 01, 2000

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.

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World's First Ray Gun Shoots Down Missile -- Staff  -- Spacer  -- June 07, 2000

TRW, the U.S. Army and the Israel Ministry of Defence (IMoD) have blazed a new trail in the history of defensive warfare by using the Army's Tactical High Energy Laser/Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrator (THEL/ACTD), the world's first high-energy laser weapon system designed for operational use, to shoot down a rocket carrying a live warhead.

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