Talon SWORDS update -- Lack of funding cited for Armed Robots

Foster-Miller's Armed Talon SWORDS models are being deployed to Iraq, but only 3 of 80 robots available under a military contract have been built because of a lack of funding over the past two years, National Defense Magazine reports.

The Talon features a mounted machine-gun that can be fired remotely, keeping soldiers out of the line of fire.

The same concept is behind the iRobot Warrior robot (shown here with two guns mounted).

See this earlier post from 2006 about iRobot's armed robot plans. My favorite is adding Javelin missiles.

But it remains to be seen if the money will be forthcoming to build this terminator robots in large numbers.