What are they, underwater terminators?

The world's first underwater robot with a computer control was established in 1968 in Leningrad. Now robots have no one in particular will be surprised. Although ... The main producers and users of underwater robots is navy. Note that the first test underwater robots to search for a sunken nuclear submarines. And where in the civilian fleet you will find these submarines? But robots can not only save, but also to attack. They, robots, anyway. Reconnaissance robots equipped with weapons, not to mention the ultrasonic hearing and chemical "nose", shot without a miss, no fear and, most importantly, never perechat commander, located on them for hundreds of kilometers. Striking colossal self-similar devices, they attack without further orders. In robotic submarine no people, that allows to simplify its structure, making it a miniature, and, consequently, more secretive. And all those military functions, which now carry a huge steel leviathan, in the future will carry flocks almost imperceptible fishies bots. Очень трудно обороняться, когда на тебя внезапно нападают одновременно со всех сторон. Incidentally, the press voiced version, that ill-fated nuclear submarine "Kursk" is just suffered an attack of such a robot. But this hypothesis has remained unproven. But as robots participated in the survey of the sunken "Kursk", you all could see on TV. Because of light weight robots, submarines can be quickly delivered to the site of fighting in the air. In fact this method of delivery tested on a robotic deminers. In a test of their raid dropped from an airplane off the east coast of the United States, and they immediately began to search, identification and neutralization of mines left over from the time of the Second World War. Hunt for the mine is now the main occupation of military underwater robots. One such robot named REMUS - Remote Environmental Monitoring UnitS - participated in the recent Iraqi operation. When we say "robot" that could not help imagine clumsy humanoid monster. In fact, they can be of any shape. The main thing that she did not interfere, and even helped the robot to perform its function. Experience has shown robots that are best are those that mimic one or the other marine animals. After all, thanks to the evolution of these forms work best to survive in the deep sea. In most cases, robots imitate fish - have the form of torpedoes. Robots, engineers have a more bizarre form - they copy arthropods - crabs, lobsters, scorpions. Their numerous limbs allow them to quickly move both on land and seabed around obstacles. Low center of gravity and the powerful clutches do not allow the waves to overturn the car. If this happens, she turns in the correct position. Robots are mines with sensors to "smell", in difficult cases, the robot can always "consult" with the operator. By the way, fighting robots are not so terribly clever brains are needed. After millions of years, 99% of the world's population calmly evaded without them, and nothing, all these millions of years of continuous cannibal. To kill a lot of brains do not need. Rather, they need to survive. That is why in the fighting involved weight machines with low levels of "intelligence" capable of performing only a limited range of tasks. They are cheap, which means they can be produced in large quantities and easy to sacrifice them. Robots - the perfect soldier. Ordered to go to war - will to fight. But from this we will not be easier. Fight, they will be with us, people. Special, excelled in the development of the destruction of their own kind, seriously believe that the fighting should take place with minimal human intervention, or even without it. Army world-arming "thinking" machines. Only in the Pentagon on this issue run 28.5 thousand scientists in 84 laboratories. And around the world? This is not science fiction, alas. It already exists and is already working.