http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/ Engadget Comments for iRobot to convert UW's academic Seaglider into military drone http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/
howful]]>Jun 11th 2008 4:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/Jun 11th 2008 4:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/Jun 11th 2008 6:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/
"licensing the Seaglider from the University of Washington will help our robots conquer new underwater frontiers."

Underwater frontiers. Yeah. Not underwater national entities. (Did the Atlanteans survive and no one informed me!?) Kind of like man has been "conquering" frontiers for ages.

In other news, iRobot made a business decision to purchase what they see as viable military technology, an underwater Predator drone, if you will, that can sniff out marine mines and enemy craft without putting our people in danger. Soon, they might even make it Roomba's partner and it can clean my giant fishtank.

I don't like the War in Iraq or Afghanistan, but I support a strong national military. I also support cool new technologies that eventually trickle down to the consumer. Like computers. And jet aircraft. And carbon fiber.

Engadget for technology news=win.
Thomas Ricker's anti-military bias=fail.]]>Jun 11th 2008 4:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/Jun 11th 2008 7:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/
great movie/reference though]]>Jun 11th 2008 6:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/Jun 11th 2008 7:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/research initiatives into products that support military missions."

And exactly how hard is it to turn new research into military
hardware? This is their design meeting:

"We could give it armor."
...
"How about guns?"
"Yeah, guns!"
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"And we could make it faster!"
"Yeah, you're onto something!"
...

Come on.]]>Jun 11th 2008 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/Jun 11th 2008 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/
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what?]]>Jun 11th 2008 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/Jun 11th 2008 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/Go rent it, it's a classic and watchable.
]]>Jun 11th 2008 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/Jun 11th 2008 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/Jun 11th 2008 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/irobot-to-convert-uws-seaglider-into-military-drones/Now it's temperatures, tomorrow it's killing you.
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