Is it just me or has anyone else thought there should be human made combat robots in Halo?
In present day we already have robots that can walk up stairs, run and carry things ect so why in Halo set over 500 hundred years in the future and has slip space travel, galactic colonization and self aware AI have we not seen any human made robots?
I was thinking could we have battle robots in Halo 6 they don’t have to be completely humanoid and shouldn’t replace standard marines or ODST’s just fight along side them like another class in the UNSC military, maybe could be used sort of like a low class canon fodder like how the Covenant uses Grunts and Jackals.
First!!! and maybe its a good thing there are not robots since Cortana has gone wacky and a ton of AI’s are backing her. They could of taken control of them or somethin crazy man
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> First!!! and maybe its a good thing there are not robots since Cortana has gone wacky and a ton of AI’s are backing her. They could of taken control of them or somethin crazy man
Yeah good point But I still think it would of been cool to see.
Well in one trailer we can see industrial robots which are similiar to that we have now.Im pretty sure ther are care robots for older people and robots for danger activitis.But I think robots are not omnipresent in publicity like we image it they are possible more in the background like today.
Corrections and personnal views are welcome.
The lack of combat robots could be attributed to laws preventing their use in war. Of course, that wouldn’t really explain why they wouldn’t be used against the Covenant.
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> The lack of combat robots could be attributed to laws preventing their use in war. Of course, that wouldn’t really explain why they wouldn’t be used against the Covenant.
The background for the achievement “shoot from the hip” has some interesting flavor text. The Insurrection makes extensive use of sabotaged and suborned industrial automata in their guerilla war campaigns.
Link. http://www.barkeranimation.com/the-mechanic-halo-5-artwork-by-john-liberto.html
There’s already robotics in halo hence the cyclops mantis and others then there’s the robotic arm from reach and so on
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> There’s already robotics in halo hence the cyclops mantis and others then there’s the robotic arm from reach and so on
Mech suits aren’t robots
Who needs robots when you have holographic A.I.
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In a way yes it would be cool to see what kind of robots 343 would come up with but at the end of the day. Imo Halo with combat robots would not be halo
In the older books there’s a handful of references to drones, but the UNSC seems to prefer thier soldiers to be fleshy bipeds.
I don’t think that they would be effective against anything really.
They’re susceptible to hacking and EMP’s
From the Halo 2 map Foundation “Deep in Chicago Industrial Zone 08 lies the decommissioned Tactical Autonomous Robotic Defense System testing facility.”
Further reading
"FOUNDATION - WAR GAMES MAP_SET/: 525-5
Deep within the Chicago Industrial Zone stands an abandoned testing facility, once home to Acheron Security’s early efforts at autonomous combat drones. With the rise of biologically augmented, cybernetically enhanced super-soldiers, the facility - and its original purpose - were deemed irrelevant. Nevertheless, the UNSC later leveraged the location for use in War Games combat simulations."
In ODST There are also Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAVs, aka drones), but their probably not autonomous.
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I think they want to focus on the Prometheans as the robot army so didn’t push the idea of the Created using UNSC made machines to rebel. Instead they are using Forerunner mechanical soldiers. It could get missed up in Halo 6 though I guess. It would be a clever way to get UNSC weapons into the missions. 
Well they actually do have robots and nanite technology. The UNSC is a lot more advanced than people realise.
For example in the book Contact Harvest they have all of these huge agricultural machines that the local AI uses against the Covenant.
Also in concept art for Halo 5 we see Poncho Chief fighting against what look like mining robots on Meridian. I am assuming that Sloan had a similar attitude as the Warden towards Chief in this early version of the story. Hes an enemy. These actually look roughly human in shape with four mechanical limbs that they clamber about on all fours.
I guess Cortana could use all the captured UNSC infrastructure and factories to start churning out robotic units that have more of a UNSC ascetic. This could be cool if they decide to do a Civil War among that faction later on. But I think they want to focus on the Prometheans as the Machine army and don’t want to create a second army of robots. Plus she can make more Forerunner soldiers so there isn’t an incentive to do so I guess?
Why am I picturing olive drab chappie with a gold visor? 
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> Who needs robots when you have holographic A.I.
But you can massively improve said AI by putting it in a death machine. Or better still have it control several billion death machines. What could possibly go wrong!
In fairness its probably a mixture of not trusting AI (especially who can go rampant) with any kind of autonomy. So an AI can be easily removed from a ship core for example but it would be harder to remove it from a robotic body. That much independencce would be threatening.
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> In fairness its probably a mixture of not trusting AI (especially who can go rampant) with any kind of autonomy. So an AI can be easily removed from a ship core for example but it would be harder to remove it from a robotic body. That much independencce would be threatening.
True.
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> In ODST There are also Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAVs, aka drones), but their probably not autonomous.
I think they’re semi-autonamous. Most likely overseen by the SMART AI aboard their carrier.
I’d always just assumed that the UNSC stayed away from robotics on a Star Wars droid type level to keep the economy out of dirt. If every single physical job was performed by robots, that could cause issues.
They could have bent the rules for the Human-Covenant war, I dunno. And we know that a lot of production is automated from Halo Landfall, and the agriculture is automated from Contact Harvest
Bungie didn’t do it because it wanted to focus on humanities struggle. So having robots fight our war didn’t fit.
343 didn’t do it because they wanted the Prometheans as the “machine army”. This allows them to tie the AI rebellion to the wider and more alien centric halo lore. Otherwise it would literally be ripping off the Geth from Mass Effect.
Basically the technology is there and there isn’t a real lore justification its more that they don’t “fit” anywhere in the setting.
Then again, I don’t know. Maybe Halo chappie will show up in a future game.