Peace Robots Make World Peace As Clear As It’s Ever Been

Over the past several weeks, we’ve become rather indifferent to the idea that our eventual demise is going to come at the hands of vengeful robots that have been gifted a bit too much autonomy. And then, as if by divine intervention, we’ve been given robots that were created specifically to harbor peace among men: Peace Robots, designed by Jelena Stojkovic, Dominik Premauer, Jupin Ghanbari and Benjamin Cselley. Ordinarily, this is the space where the writer would provide a bit of background about the utility of the design, either from his own vision or directly from that of the designer. All I see, however, is a flying robot with a bunch of propellers. As for the designers, they’ve offered what can only be referred to as incomprehensible garble. I refuse to simply recycle it unfiltered, leaving the reader as baffled as I am, without clearing my conscience with that disclaimer. Read on, do your best to make sense of it yourself!

Perhaps, you’ll do better than I did: “We cannot end war, but we can stop people from taking part! Peace Robots serve the United Nations as an ad-hoc intervention squad. They are subject to the UN-Principles neutrality and non-partisanship in crisis areas. Non-lethal systems enable them to defuse trouble spots and protect civilians from becoming victims. The Peace Robots are self-governed and will be deployed in swarms.”

Carry on. [via Yanko]