You may remember this little dumbell-looking Recon Scout drone
we saw last year, when it had just been implemented in the military. If you'll recall, the robot selflessly allows itself to be thrown into wild and unpredictable situations deemed "too risky" for people, then transmits grainy video back to an Operator Control Unit. Well, it turns out that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation was interested in this rugged bastion of self-sacrifice, too. They can apparently envision all kinds of nightmare scenarios where prisoners have weapons and no human wants any part of it -- which is why they've agreed to a rental contract where they get ten devices and developer ReconRobotics gets feedback from the Department in exchange. Seriously though, aren't there any jubilant tasks we could set this guy to? He's getting to be such a killjoy.
posted Oct 31st 2008 7:58AM
Toss him into the girls locker room?
giggity.
How big is this thing? What's stopping people picking it up and beating each other with it?
Absolutely nothing.
the lack of a front-mounted remote-controlled uzi.
yo timel sup
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T-Flash: aka "Yet Another Memory Card Format"
by Peter Rojas, posted Mar 2nd 2004 at 1:12PM
ot that anyone seems to be demanding yet another Flash memory card format, but SanDisk just took the wraps off of T-Flash, which is meant to be used with cellphones. The new format is just 11mm by 15mm, or half the size of a SIM card (i.e. easily lost), and comes in in 32MB, 64MB, and 128MB varieties. Motorola is the first cellphone manufacturer to get behind T-Flash, and conveniently, the cards will work in an SD card slot with the proper adapter.
It looks like a micro SD card.
That's because it IS a micro SD card.
Solid Snake would like this
Will BigDog like this too? Seems like a mini cometitor to that guy.
so when the rioting starts at least they have a nice grainy video of it to show the press. It should be equipped with some sort of tear gas or a way to detain the prisoners somehow
Detain them? Put handcuffs on them and hold them?
Yes, tear-gassing prisoners could certainly be a jubilant task. But you really want sarin for teh uberlulz.
recon scout+little kids+"great fun"=profit
You know what's even more of a killjoy?
When people die
Ahh, I see you have met my friends... Debbie Downer and Buzz Killington.
Yes, because if California keeps locking people up at the same rate, there won't be anyone left to work as prison guards. Or, at the very least, noone left to pay their salaries.
Oh, wait, that's probably why we need a loan from the Federal Government.
Wow, my senior design project lives on!
Someday shank that snitch.
Just throw and MP3 player in it, some speakers and call it a Sony.
jailbot?
lol, my robotics prof. is the one who invented these, and I'm gonna be writing code for it in a couple of weeks
toss a bunch of them into the sewers of NYC and finally put to rest the (flushed-toilet) croc / alligator stories...