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Street Fighting Robot Challenge

Posted by samzenpus on from the gun-jack dept.

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."

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  1. Counter attack by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh yeah? Well Al Quida is countering with suicidal robots with bomb belts. So there!

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  2. Page is swamped by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do you realize that our military may then get slashdotted in the middle of a battle?

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    1. Re:Page is swamped by jpardey · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe in Unreal Tournament 2020, rather than MONSTER KILL, you will hear DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE

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  3. Re:Robocop by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where's robocop when you need him?

    Based on the trend, probably in California politics of some kind.

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  4. well.. by TheBeardIsRed · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't lie. The inner 14-year-old suburban white male in me thinks this kindof rules.

  5. I liked the title by SP33doh · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

  6. Go Robo! by freeze128 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone installed Windows Vista on him.... He's still booting.

  7. The Rules of Robot Fight Club by SeaFox · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.