Video: Robots Firing Guns
Posted in: Robots, security, Today's Chili, videoPeaches and cream. Smoked salmon and cream cheese. Robots with guns. All these things are natural partners, combinations sent from heaven to us Earth-bound monkeys to make our sad lives better. Only the last, though, is at the same time both awesome and terrifying.
The video shows a montage of the best and worst of the creations of RoboteX Inc (ignore the powerpoint-style opening. The real action starts just shy of one minute in). First, we see a tiny, bullet firing spider of a robot, able to keep a bead on its target even when bouncing over rocky terrain or walking up stairs (yes, stairs. Take that, Daleks). This is just plain neat.
The next bot, though, is actually rather menacing: a humanoid machine that walks amongst the urban population, “helping” the police. Can you imagine how you’d feel if you saw this thing on your street, a cold, emotionless killing machine bristling with advanced weaponry, its cold metal body empty of anything so warm as a soul or conscience? Maybe like one of the nine soldiers who were mown down by a marauding robot in an ED-209 style massacre in South Africa two years ago.
After that, the video quiets down a little, showing us guns mounted upside-down on wheels, but wait for the denouement at 3:53 minutes in — a robot-drone helicopter with not one but two (2!) automatic rifles on the sides. I gotta get me one of those.
RoboteX Inc. Montage ROBOTS WITH GUNS [YouTube]
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