Re: battlebots

From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2000 - 22:09:05 MDT


> D. den Otter posted a number of rad cool ideas, including:
> ...allow just about any kind of weapon.... Guns, flame throwers and
> grenades could make such shows a lot more fun. Imagine, for example, a
> small "tank" with a .50 armor-piercing sniper cannon as its primary weapon.
> ....Most burglars are in fact bumbling idiots, and would be easy prey
> for a "single-minded" pack of such robots. Sentinel robots have great
> commercial potential, IMHO, and are right up the transhuman alley...

The army has experimenting with this for years. A friend of me was a
photographer up on the China Lake north ranges. Said they had a
number of prototype battlebots under test. Unfortunately the army
isnt talking much about the results. {8-[ spike



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