Israel's Guardium warbots probably not as lame as their promo video
By Nilay Patel 
posted Apr 29th 2008 4:38PM
posted Apr 29th 2008 4:38PM
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If they hired a advertising firm to create that demo they should ask for their money back. Sheer fail.
"an advertising firm"...damn you prosthetic pointing finger!
Israel...
coming up with new and exciting ways to murder Palestinians.
Just remember that every time Israel signs a cease fire agreement, it's always the Palestinians who are the first to shoot and the first to break the terms of the agreement. Israel only fires back in defense to eliminate the agressors.
yep...don't call Israel murders...they just do an eye for 100 eye's.....
anyway its true...Israel signs cease fire and some ass comes and blows himself in Israel territory...
Palestine got Gaza from Israel then they started blowing everything in there....nice work palestine! nice work
love the [intruder noncompliant!] AI. I think vista has that built in.
At least the white smokes makes terrorists cough!
Nahh....but it might scare land-stealing, government-backed, military- protected Israeli settlers (aka the real terrorists).
http://www.btselem.org/Download/Settlements_Map_Eng.jpg
Truth is, if it can launch smoke gernades, it can launch frag gernades, and/or be retrofitted with guns. I'm sure that was just for demostrational purposes.
The design is cool though- kind of like a mini batmobile.
Adam, while this is engadget and not a forum to discuss middle east politics, I will say:
You're totally right, suicide bombings, mass shootings, public beheadings, education of hate, and all around preaching of violence is all cool. Chilling out in your living room makes you a 'real terrorist.' As you so eloquently put it.
Good job.
Now go learn some friggin israeli/ middle east history before spewing things out of your tuchus.
Not to mention that map you posted was irrelevant, purposefully hard to interpret, and created in 2002 before the withdraw from the West Bank.
WTF is wrong with you?
politics and gadgets don't blend
I'm gonna side with Adam on this. Israel isn't any better (or worse) than anyone else in the region. They are pretty much the bullies of the Middle East.
they are worse you can just search Palestine on youtube and watch all the videos of the horrible things that are happening to the Palestinians. Imagine someone coming to your city surrounding it with barriers and slowly bulldozing houses down one by one, I'm sure you would get pissed off and fight back.
Wow another wonderful tool of destruction for the Israelis to destroy innocent civilians with. I know that after WWII, it became taboo to say anything against the Jews, but Israel has killed more innocent people than any other group in recent history. Their occupation of Palestine is a genocide, and has been for decades. Read a little on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Israeli-Palestinian_conflict
Israel continues to give the finger to any action taken by the UN, because they have the only support that matters: the US's.
@Zoli: Yea, I'll give them that they're more "modern", but that doesn't mean they haven't massacred, what, a million people maybe? We'll never know, because they don't allow third parties to come in and watch the killing or count the bodies. Remember Jenin? The Sabra and Shatila massacre? Of course not, because to you everything Israel does is right, because the Palestinians never existed, they were just these horrible, backwards Mozlems who've been occupying land that has always and will always belong to Jews, just because they're Jewish, and fuck everyone else. Go ahead thinking Israel's out there all by itself in the middle of this horrible sea of terrorists, without billions of dollars and political support from the only superpower.
You're gonna have a smart ass comment after this that is purely fueled by your dislike of "terrorist" Arabs or Muslims. Just look at the facts, man.
icingdeath88 (whatever that name means) - why are you posting gibberish about something you apparently don't comprehend on a gadget forum?
Just because the word Israel appear in a title, this does not mean the comment section becomes a forum to bash Jewish people and their country. If the story was as one-sided as you put it, then there wouldn't be any right to Israel's existence. Obviously there is and this is about technology so keep your ridiculous comments away. I think there is technology section at Aljazeera's website for you to find some friends:)
@Deyanimay
heres some youtube for ya:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AERB1zNoar8
and to back the video up:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mercaz_Harav_massacre
The looks like an imac with wheels. aka a piece of crap
Hell, while we're at it, eeeman, I'd even say it looks exactly as much like an eeePC as it does an imac. ...also a blender. ...also a horse. ...and a balloon. I mean. ...actually, this thing doesn't look much like an imac, at all... Thanks for the comment, though.
In USA, they are just a step near of a recession and still you can find people willing to spend a lot of (not they) money on a useless (and uncool) toys.
:-(
these bots were commissioned by Israel.
try actually reading the post next time.
Can you perhaps clarify what you were attempting to say? Because the US hasn't bought any of these "toys"...and government spending is actually a conceivable way to get us out of a recession, although not on this device as it isn't made here.
Even going on the pretense that the U.S. was buying these, your post still drips with ignorance. Take a basic macroecon course and you'll find that recessions aren't as simple to fix as not spending money (one of the many possible causes of a recession).
That video is hilarious. It reminds me of many a secret agent B-movie.
Also, as an aside, let me make sure I have this straight: When articles are posted about military robots (which are almost always not autonomous robots, but ROVs) with real guns, snide comments are made about Skynet and how terrible it is that these robots could kill people.
Now a robot comes along that's equipped with a non-lethal weapon (apparently a teargas grenade launcher) and it's "lame" and sarcastically "terrifying". Can you guys make up your minds?
... is this some recently uncovered Glen A. Larson production or something?
If I was a ninja who could pass through a wire fence without cutting it, I could also breathe tear gas.
The bot came up behind him before he was able to cut through it..
What resemblence does this thing have to an imac.
You fail for starting a an apple vs. m$ war, in a completely unrelated and off-topic posting.
You my sir deserve an award for being a pretentious ASS!
Then I guess you get the award for missing the Reply button.
haha we each have awards then!
Whee! Rewards for everyone!
It's nice of that ninjaspy to just wait there for like 5 minutes for the robot to show up...and then to stand in the cloud of teargas...and then run away instead of three feet to the left out of the cloud...and then knock over the stupid teargas shooting robot...
Few improvements.
1) Speed
2) Ability to go around buildings, not through them
3) Flame Thrower
- Ability to play Doom.
And then you get two people to cut the fence on opposite sides...
That failed so much it... it... WON!
At first I was thinking "don't they have LCD monitors in Israel??" and then I realized that it wasn't real and wondered why they don't even have virtual LCDs?
I mean, a virtual CRT?? wtf.
Well, that is a funny promo :D LAME!
we do have LCD's here
actually, when you get to a store you can't buy CRT, they just don't exist anymore...
the real deal - is much better. (i hope)
Ignorant bastards. The guy obviously only spoke Ninja and probably got gassed for no reason. They need a "yell 2 for Ninja" before doing the whole "Leave now!" deal.
I'm guessing that's tear gas, or something, but look at the other obvious messup in the ad: intruder alert! Spray with tear gas! Done. Let's leave that gaping hole in the fence...
will it blend? If not, it must be useless....
More importantly, will it play Doom?
@oZone
dude, one "Doom" comment was almost acceptable, but two of the same type of jokes aren't...
Who's gonna fix the fence..the bot...Not!
I don't get it, the intruder was already in the perimeter .planting the bomb from the inside. He escaped by magically flying through the fence, and was kind enough to remove the bomb he just planted from fence.
Why was the robot so kind to this guy? why not just run him over?
This machine really sucks , and so does the idea of robots being nice to terrorists.
Uhhh....perhaps the Israelis are getting a little TOO up on military? Everyone else in the region fears invasion...
In Soviet Russia the bots gas you.... oh wait, I don't think that works.
More like in Soviet Russia, the gas bots you. amirite?
Wait...I thought you're supposed to capture intruders when they infiltrate a government/military facility, not force them to leave and hope they never come back. o.O
Wait thats not how it happens, the dude that operates the vehicle will shoot at innocent palestines because "they hate jews".
...and I bet they got the money for this from American taxpayers.
Don't bet that it just makes some smoke.
I think it would be naive to think that Israel would publicly expose its real top-notch sophisticated equipment. As for a fact, i know they are working on cutting-edge Nano-Technology robots that can do aplenty while jammed into a pocketable size.
@icingdeath88 - you can spread defamations and lies as long as you want, by the name of the snaky toxic "Axis Of Evil" propaganda, reality and facts show different, they show one country that tolerates missiles been launched toward its citizens, while other countries would have erased those Palestinian terrorists without blinking. You see Palestinian terrorists shooting and housing explosives within civilian houses (they learned from Hezbollah), and you see manipulative propaganda of terrorists who shoot on fuel gateways to provoke a fake oil or light deficiency, while real pictures prove otherwise. Bottom line, you can live the fib but only the truth prevails!!!
Pretty cool, plus they can't be kidnapped and taken to Syria.
Really really bad ad though.
Only known for unjustly slaughtering innocent people and destabalising the Middle East.
wtf hahahaha
Anybody else notice the Terminator and then James Bond like music?