http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/ Engadget Comments for Battlefield-ready iRobots roll into Washington http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/Oct 13th 2006 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/

So when everyone is using robots to fight wars, what's the point?]]>Oct 13th 2006 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/
Whats the point of war all together?
The guys that start it never fight in it... they use humans as their drones instead of machine no?


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Exactly. We should just go back to playing chess to solve land disputs.]]>Oct 13th 2006 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/
"But what about eyes?"

"Good question... I know, grab that Logitech WebCam and stick it between the guns!!"

And hasn't the Army seen Short Circuit?]]>Oct 13th 2006 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/Oct 13th 2006 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/-sun]]>Oct 15th 2006 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/Oct 13th 2006 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/
Leaderboard:
Fata1ity Bot has 5127 confirmed kills
Wal-Mart Bot has 140 confirmed kills
Geico Bot has 109 confirmed kills
AT&T Bot has 124 confirmed kills]]>Oct 13th 2006 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/Oct 13th 2006 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/Oct 13th 2006 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/Oct 13th 2006 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/Oct 13th 2006 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/They'd look meaner if they added a toilet plunger for an arm. Bring on the Daleks!]]>Oct 13th 2006 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/]]>Oct 13th 2006 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/
Unfortunately, I have no good entries.

ShooBa? StreetsweeperBa?]]>Oct 13th 2006 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/]]>Oct 13th 2006 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/
Or, if you are feeling more creative, leap on top of it, and somehow fiddle it so you can control it yourself, hence having your own mini battle tank.]]>Oct 13th 2006 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/
So all that ducking and weaving I learned from counterstrike works afterall?????? Awesome!]]>Aug 9th 2007 10:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/Oct 13th 2006 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/They rebelled...

:-)]]>Oct 13th 2006 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/Oct 13th 2006 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/Oct 13th 2006 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/Oct 13th 2006 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/Oct 13th 2006 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/Oct 13th 2006 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/
There. I used "myriad" for the rest of the articles you guys will write for this week. Now you can use a different word. ]]>Oct 13th 2006 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/Oct 13th 2006 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/08/29

http://imdb.com/title/tt0133093/

http://imdb.com/title/tt0088247/]]>Oct 13th 2006 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/
When the country that lost is faced with waves of soul-less stares from the vacant cameras of thousands of killbots... They'll realize a point - To keep killbots off their soil.

"Exactly. We should just go back to playing chess to solve land disputs."

When a sore loser loses at chess, they spill all the pieces instead of acknowloging they lost. When a gladiator loses, he dies. No questions about who lost. Although it's a massive game of chess, at the end, the loser is stuck with the winner's pieces in their yard. You don't have to take a life to make a threat, having masses of dual assault rifle toting machine up close and personal with the enemy is threat enough to make political change.]]>Oct 13th 2006 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/Oct 13th 2006 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/Oct 13th 2006 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/Oct 13th 2006 8:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/
100% of deployed unmanned ground vehicles are fully teleoperated.

There will only possibly be automated firing on systems used for extreme security, like nuclear weapon storage.

Automated target detection and tracking will certainly help the effort though. With the time lag and difficulty of remote operation, automated aiming will literally be a life saver -- for friendlies.]]>Oct 13th 2006 11:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/ Yes...the ammo cans. They rather do evoke eyes.

If they absolutely had to use a Logitec camera for this machines sight, they should have used two, and placed one in the center cavity of each ammo can. Not only would the 'eyes' have been higher for a better field of vision, having two would allow this thing to have some depth
perception. Not soooo important for sighting (since you only tdo it with one eye) but it would help this bot negotiate terain better.

Of course, if they did that, the temptation to put a white and red applique on the ammo cans, thus simulating two grotusquely huge and blood shot eyes might have been irresistable.

"Meth 'bots up FRONT!"

As for the robots eventually running amok...


'Take a chance...'
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But I see that I am the only one to be a little bothered that the Roomba they bought (and encouraged their friends to buy) was used to fund a weapon that allows the murder to never see their victim.

The end is truly here.]]>Oct 14th 2006 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/battlefield-ready-irobots-roll-into-washington/
I don't think it'd hear you sneaking up on it either...]]>Oct 30th 2006 4:03PM