samsung and korea university have moved forward into the past and built one of those things only ever seen previously in asian sci-fi movies: a robot sentry armed with a 5.5 machinegun for deployment along the dmz. it sees with two zooming cameras (regular for daytime, infrared for nite), issues commands through a speaker system and is claimed to be able to tell the difference between humans and like trees n stuff (a talent which still eludes some live domestic security guards).
shortly after they go on duty next year we should quickly find out whether they can be kidnapped cuz i'm guessing it's gonna drive kim nuts to know that while he has nukes, the other team gots da bomb.
i'm also willing to bet sony, panasonic and all the rest will quickly develop rival products...sorta like what happened when those transformer toy things exploded onto the market.
embarassing as it is to admit, i've no clue how to embed the video link or whether it can be done legally so...you'll have to go check it out the old-fashioned way.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xg078_robot-sentinella