Robotic antiaircraft cannon goes berserk and kills 9 soldiers

[vray]

The South African National Defence Force "is probing whether a software glitch led to an antiaircraft cannon malfunction that killed nine soldiers and seriously injured 14 others during a shooting exercise on Friday".

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/10/robot-cannon-ki.html

 

[Leslie]

Opening salvo in the forthcoming war?

 

[WillyB]

Skynet...maybe?

 

[az_max]

Looks like that robot forgot Asimov's first law

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

 

[Onionman]

Robocop?