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Battle Roomba Tractor
jazzstep writes "This article on MSNBC introduces an interesting new duo on the robotics front. iRobot and John Deere have teamed up to create a new battle-ready robot for the Pentagon."
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They better hope that the battlefield doesn't have any corners for the "battle roomba" to get stuck in...
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true." - Homer Simpson
"All your dust bunnies are belong to us."
Okay, works for me.
http://www.busyweather.com/
...They definitely need a strobing set of red lights that goes from side to side at the front of the car.
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Why does it takes so much money to make a remote control car? Don't we have those for kids like ages ago for less then $100? Scales it up, still doesn't justify the high price.
it would transform too! Room-bots, roll out!
Does the idea of putting artifical intelligence into a killing machine make anyone else a little nervous?
There is a drivers seat because one of the three modes of operation is "manual," with the other two being remote control and autonomous.
http://www.busyweather.com/
"You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!"
That's the obligatory response to any robot battles in the Pentagon.
So the John Deere part chops the enemies up into little pieces, and the roomba part vacuums them up?
Stupid sexy Flanders.
Two old farmers, one chewing a stalk of wheat.
"Abe, you gettin some new equipment for the next harvest?"
"Yep, I was gonna get me one of them Aytonomous Assault Vehicles to help in the south field."
"the 312?"
"nah, the 412, it's got the bailer attachment on the rear gun deck."
"John Deer always did make good AAV's"
"hell it'll get rid of the varmints too"
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And in other news, North Korea has just started work on its new defense -- fringed rugs!
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
The drone planes can also attack remotely now (hellfire missiles).
Flying is actually easier than driving because you don't have to worry about terrain and collisions as much. Take something as simple as a hill. The calculations and sensors to figure out that it's a hill, not a curb or other blockage, then figure out whether the slope is within climbing margins, etc, is actualy quite difficult. We're getting there, but people and animals have the equivalent of a supercomputer neural net trained for years just for processing visual information for this.
I don't read AC A human right
Apparently the DOD has put a high priority on frightening the enemy's pets.
-B
/me decides to wait for robotic appliances not produced by a company making military gear.
Great idea.
Don't forget to not use GPS.
Oh, and don't forget that you can't get on a plane manufactured by Boeing. Or any airplane manufacturer...
Or buy a Jeep (or any car, for that matter)...
Or buy office furniture of any type (or even shop at Staples, Office Depot, etc.)...
Or buy a computer from Dell, IBM, HP...
Because Lord knows we can't support the evil corporations who sell things to willing customers with lots of money. How dare they!