Rufus Terrill's stocky handmade robot is more than your average drinking buddy -- in fact, the four-foot tall, 300-pound robotic security guard makes it his job to discourage vandals and vagabonds from marring the streets of Atlanta. The inventor is an engineer-turned-bar owner who got tired of drifters and thieves hanging around his business undeterred. Rather than calling in the professionals, he constructed a remote controlled robot that can flash a spotlight, blast out water and resist even the toughest of 40oz. cans that inevitably come its way. Best of all, he can even make the creature talk, and apparently, its array of scare tactics has been fairly effective thus far. Talk about
protecting and serving.
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posted Feb 27th 2008 6:55AM
If this thing chased me, I'd nick it... Free project parts FTW!
Slow news day then ...
Beer comes in 40oz. bottles not cans.
What about Fosters?
That would be a "tinnie" then.
The standard Fosters oil can is 25.4 oz.(about one and a half pints)
Fosters Bitter is oner of my favorite beers.
Fosters is not beer.
It's piss in a tin sold to people who don't know what beer is
Squirt..
(In my best outrageous French Accent)
"Now go away, before I taunt you a second time!"
Your mother was a hampster and your father smelt of elderberries!
I think you mean 'hamster'
Fosters ewww
What, no "I for one" or "Can it blend" yet? I bet it could beat me at doom though.
I, for one, welcome our new 300 pound water-shooting armor-covered security guard drone overlords.
Man I love me some Sweetwater. I might have to find this guys bar just to check out his robot.
But can it play an AI controlled NCP in Doom?
what? no video?!!
40s come in cans now? What's next-- cats and dogs sleeping together?
Cool, this bar is less than a mile from my office, I've gotta go check out the bumbot!
I live less than a block from his bar. I love that guy!
He used to go around the place and get people to go "bumspotting" with him. He's chase bums out of a public park at night with a flashlight.
And I probably shouldn't tell you about the grappling hook (the local police asked him to stop using it because they were worried someone would get hurt).
Sounds like this guy's really committed to addressing the root causes of homelessness in Atlanta.
@Craig:
He's targeting drug dealers / users around a children's playground area. He's also announcing through the remote loudspeaker what is going to happen to those who don't comply (they will be doused with icy water). Giving them an opportunity to leave and giving a warning means that it can't be called "assault".
I applaud the man.
Umm, yeah, I don't know what infomercial you got your law degree from, but if you attack someone, even if you warn them first, it's still assault.
This is what happens when a engineer-turns-bar owner-turns-inventor.
Should have shaped it a bit more like a cone, used a toilet plunger on the protruding end, with round dome like bumps on its lower half, with it yelling "Extricate!"
The first Dalek?
Every self-respecting cyborg/robot needs to prove its superiority by mastering the usage of a toilet plunger as a functional arm.
crazy...I live down the street from this bar...I've even gone there a couple of times. I've never seen the 'bumbot' but I have seen the sketchy people hanging out in front of it. That area is a um...'tarnished.'
Its just a matter of time before he gets sued by the ACLU.
Two words: Chopping Mall
Number 5, is [belch] wasted...
hello... i see you... deploying... are you still there... ow ow ow ow... i dont blame you....
Ex-Ter-Mi-NATE!@#
Found a video of it here: http://www.ajc.com/multimedia/content/multimedia/video/index.html?clip=66347
Or he could have invested that time and money in developing better social programs to help the disenfranchised be less of a supposed nuisance to the city.
Way to go, whitey.