Showing posts with label Johhny Five. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Johhny Five. Show all posts

Friday, August 3, 2007

Johnny Five is alive, and tricked out to go after terrorists!

http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/issues/2007/August/RifleToting.htm

I hope these robots can be used to strike fear into the blackened hearts of the terrorists (and keep troops as safe as possible).

They strike me as a better equiped and tougher version of a bomb disposal robot I got to play with once... easy to drive (like a video game), sensitive precise controls (I shook a friends' hand with the claw, only later to be told that had I applied more pressure it would have turned his bones to so much dust and goo), and way, way cool. The unit I got to toy with had a shotgun for remote destruction of suspicious packages- beefing up the concept and adding a heavy duty rifle and sending them after terrorists makes perfect sense.

A remote robot can be more accurate, and soak up more punishment than a human, and you can patch it up and send it back out, or at worst not have to write a letter to loved ones if it is KIA.