PDI BorMar paintball gun can be mounted to robots

We just eyed PDI's BorMar paintball gun on display at this week's Risk Control in Tokyo (RISCON) exhibition, which wants its goers to "control risk to the fullest despite unavoidable difficulty." Apparently the BorMar can be hooked up to a robot for automated paintball firing up to 15m (49ft) and is ideally used in unmanned areas like a parking lot at night to splatter miscreants with bright red paint (or other assorted colors) if they trespass. Say, those Japanese engineers can make just about anything work with a robot right? We've got a spare Roomba around here somewhere.

[Via Robot Watch]

[William Brand @ Oct 25th 2006 12:52AM]

I'll take a squadron of Paintball Roombas over Korea's silly robotic border patrol -any- day.

[&& @ Oct 25th 2006 12:58AM]

I for one welcome our paintball-shooting Roomba overlords.

[Farris @ Oct 25th 2006 1:01AM]

I, for one, welcome our miscreant-shooting, paintball-firing overlords.
Just thought I'd get that out of the way.

It's probably a matter of time before this is modified to shoot bullets. Maybe a Hack-a-Day project?

[Farris @ Oct 25th 2006 1:06AM]

Dang, && beat me by one minutes!

[Matt @ Oct 25th 2006 10:41AM]

one minutes? since when do we put the s there?

[&& @ Oct 25th 2006 1:44AM]

I had to sacrifice word choice for speed, but I won. =)

[Josh McDonald @ Oct 25th 2006 3:45AM]

Am I the only person who would want nothing more than an automated paintball robot "protecting" some local warehouse? That'd rock! Think of the fun you could have!

[leigh @ Oct 25th 2006 4:01AM]

@Farris:

See film: The Jackal

That is some awesome bit of kit!

:D

[Othello @ Oct 25th 2006 7:02AM]

I bet it could be used to fire pepperballs too.

[fede @ Oct 25th 2006 7:52AM]

oh! it's marvellous.. now, i can go to jump, run and play with the balls...

[Uncle Jerry @ Oct 25th 2006 8:40AM]

This is all that needs to be said.
http://www.humansunitedagainstrobots.com/HUAR.html

[Farris @ Oct 25th 2006 3:46PM]

Why not? It seemed like a good ideas at the time.

:P

[thesawzall @ Oct 25th 2006 11:18AM]

This'd be good for protecting your Halloween lawn decorations from the neighborhood miscreants. Trick or Treat or Eat Paint.

[Chad @ Oct 25th 2006 1:11PM]

Seems kinda week to me. For my senior design project we did this but let you control it by cell phone or park it and let it fend for itself in autonomous mode. http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~dsml/ece477/Webs/S05-Grp11/pictures/TankStuff%20051.jpg or http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~dsml/ece477/Webs/S05-Grp11 for the homepage.

[Cory @ Oct 25th 2006 1:19PM]

Why not, instead of shooting paintballs to protect something, use the pepper balls that police have for as "less than lethal" deterents. They fit in standard paintball markers, but instead of paint, they're loaded with MACE powder.

[JS @ Oct 25th 2006 1:55PM]

I just love the actual site....I mean who wouldnt want to buy something with a sweet Eagle in the background?


http://securityforce.jp/bormar/bortop.html


also reference here for some sweet shots of Japanese Awesomeness (looks like Japan has Red Necks as well):
http://securityforce.jp/bormar/techno/techno.html