iRobot Negotiator is a tactical bot for those mean suburban streets
By Paul Miller 
posted Aug 6th 2008 10:34AM
posted Aug 6th 2008 10:34AM
Update: We just noticed that the iRobot Negotiator bears some, erm, striking similarities to the Robot FX Negotiator. If you'll remember, not only did iRobot win its lawsuit against Robot FX, it also bought up all of Robot FX's assets. Sounds like this is iRobot's shot at recouping some of those hefty court fees, but couldn't they have at least changed the name?
It will keep the mean streets clean.
That is what Batman is for, and he is free of charge. Bonus.
Yeah, but will it clean my carpet?
I wonder whether you can mount a minigun on that thing.
That would certainly help it live up to it's name.
"Drop your weapon. You have thirty seconds to comply."
That's probably what the "civil response kit" consists of.
crysis?
Why is it whenever I say crysis it gets low ranked?!!!
I really wanna know!
trust me, if you even have to say that, you already know...
it's like a RC Car...that can kill you...
15,000 doesn't afford much protection apparently. It isn't bulletproof.
I can see Will Smith controlling it!
No reference to the awesome movie with Kevin Spacey and Samuel L. Jackson?
Or the one with Will Smith and Bridget Moynahan. Combine the two, and you have Spacey trying to talk down Sonny (the main robot in I, Robot) who is perfectly logical and cannot be talked down.
Streets man, for real.
It's a remote controlled armored toy. Not a Robot. boring...
It's a remote controlled toy that costs $20,000. But hey, when you're selling to the goverment, slap any price tag you like on it.
I bet your the same literal dolt that gets blue in the face with anger anytime someone calls a battlebot a robot as well.
ok so the iRobot is out but when do housewives get the Hancock home robot...
a robot for a more safety world is like a wall in the desert
That's what your comment feels like as well...
Cause nothing strikes fear into criminals than the word "iRobot"
I know nothing strikes fear into my lap dog more than the iRobot. Pugs are afraid of vacuums!
Can it flip itself back over if I kick it off the steps? XD
What is the difference between this and the one they sell at Toys "R" Us?
one costs $19.99, and the other has a $19,980.01 black paint job...
ACTIVE DENIAL! torture my tax dollars out of those criminal low life leaches...
iRobot gun git yo ass, sucka!
"Civil response kit" : I'm envisioning either a bean bag cannon / pepper spray hose combined with an extra robotic arm for giving people the finger
can we stop with the i when naming everything?
See mom, all those video game skills you kept saying I would never use paid off. Today, I got a job shooting people IRL with a robot for the LAPD.
iRobot has been around long before the iPod showed up and started the "iName" trend. Besides, its a play on the classic Asimov robot book, I, Robot.
As for the $100k price tag, apparently, this thing is designed to endure bomb blasts, so that might be part of it.
I always thought that would have been the iMac? Just maybe?
You're right, the iMac was out before the iPod. But iRobot was still around before that, they've been around since the early 90s. The iMac was introduced in the mid-to-late 90s.
Well, iRobot came out WAY before the iPod. Not sure about the iMac though, nor do I care enough to check. But as it's a reference to the book I Robot, well, they can get away with it all they want. It's not like they sell an iRoomba, and iScooba, or an iDirt Dog (or would that be an iDirt iDog?)
iMac: 1998
iRobot: 1990
if PackBot 510 cost $100000 how much would ED-209 cost?
They should test run the thing in Robot Wars