News 8 Evening News Who: News 8 Reporter What: Evening News: Government launches robotic "SENTINEL" soldiers When: Monday Evening Where: Broadcast to the greater NYC area Today was an historic day, says a government spokesman. Today a whole whole new generation of Sentinels was launched, only a week behind their intended activation date. Robotic SENTINEL soldiers have been dispatched in small numbers to assist their human counterparts in law enforcement and anti-terrorist activities. SENTINEL robot soldiers are easy to discern from human sentinels, at just shy of eight feet high, these troops are an impressive sight. While the details are not all provided, there appear to be several different forms of SENTINEL robots, and both metallic and plastic models have been spotted.
SENTINEL robots come equipped with various weapons, power-repressing serums and capture-and-restraint systems. Robots are able to communicate with both each other and operations base via satellite linkup and are equipped with a state of the art artificial intelligence capable of learning and independent thought. While human sentinels still outnumber their robotic counterparts six to one, the number of robotic soldiers is expected to increase sharply over the next year. Spokespeople say they hope to phase out human sentinels entirely within the next five years in order to help preserve human life.
In other news, there is still no official explanation for the falling object many viewers reported over the ocean Sunday....