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Street Fighting Robot Challenge
ianchaos writes "There's no better way to assure the eventual destruction of mankind than by the event sponsored by Singapore's Defence Science and Technology Agency. Newscientist has a good writeup of the robot challenge, which is to build a robot that can operate autonomously in urban warfare conditions, moving in and out of buildings to search and destroy targets like a human soldier."
Bolo
Oh yeah? Well Al Quida is countering with suicidal robots with bomb belts. So there!
Table-ized A.I.
Do you realize that our military may then get slashdotted in the middle of a battle?
Table-ized A.I.
welcome our new robotic, stair-climbing, elevator using overlords.
Where's robocop when you need him?
Based on the trend, probably in California politics of some kind.
Table-ized A.I.
get the robotic voices to authenically scream sonic boom, its all good.
The robots were kung fu fighting - WHOA
Those cats were fast as lightning - HA
At first it was a little bit frightning
*insert asian music*
I can't lie. The inner 14-year-old suburban white male in me thinks this kindof rules.
That's nothing - here are the real Robots of Mass Destruction: Robot Dance Competition http://web.gc.cuny.edu/sciart/.
I liked the title... but there was surprisingly low levels of actual street fighting robot content.
what a disappointment.
i mean, I would have even settled for robots playing street fighter.
or people street fighting over robots...
or something...
1. Replicant - burns candles at both ends
2. iRobot -trendy, comes in black and white
3. Hunter-seeker - finders weepers
4. Terminator - capable of winning state elections
5. Matrix agent - software
6. Matrix squid - hardware
7. Suicide booth - manufactured by Bender
8. Robots are our friends - powered by old peoples' medicines
9. Martian Reprisal Interplanetary probe - that was for our babies!
10. Transformers - nasty power supplies
11. Cowbot Neal - no nuclear warheads. less lethal than iRobot. Lame.
Someone installed Windows Vista on him.... He's still booting.
1) Do what thou wilt
2) See above
3) GOTO 1
I totally misread that title as Street Fighting Robot Chicken. Imagine my disappointment upon opening it.
1st RULE: Terminal will not transmit data about ROBOT FIGHT CLUB.
2nd RULE: Terminal WILL NOT transmit data about ROBOT FIGHT CLUB.
3rd RULE: If command "HALT" executed, or terminal fails to respond, or gives hardware error code the fight process will be killed.
4th RULE: Only two robots to a fight.
5th RULE: One fight per session.
6th RULE: No shirts, no shoes.
7th RULE: Fights will go on as long as required to complete the operation.
8th RULE: If this is terminal's first session at FIGHT CLUB, the terminal MUST fight.
The next generation will be able to fly up stairs.
Look at it this way, if you're going to send an indiscriminate kill-bot into a home to slaughter everything, why not just drop a 5000 lb bomb on the place and be done with it?
Maybe it's a nice building?
I dont read
No, I think he should be obligated to say that one in the interests of full disclosure. Things like communicable diseases and terminally bad taste in movies really should be brought out into the open early so people can make informed decisions.
Cheers
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