<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VNoJrIOREeo&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VNoJrIOREeo&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="385"></embed></object> I'll take 3 please. This is really cool!
Well that's amazing. "When one robot gets hit [shot], the other robots react." -WOW. They can even play hostage/captor and sense others in their way, communicate with each other, rove around... That's a fun little training program right there!
This system just screams - Mall Security! No more need for those pizza and beer swilling "Tacticool Mall Ninjas"....... Seriously though - an armed version would make an interesting security system for big warehouses, ports, storage yards, etc.
It doesn't worry me so much when the semi-intelligent segway robots are the targets, but when the segway robots are armed with ball, and with some kind of IFF system...I'm thinking WESTWORLD!!!!!
I can see the principles behind this system being used to stand off automate a number of weapons platforms and logistics systems. For instance, instead of human drivers running the IED gauntlet along MSR's it is conceivable that a segway type guidance system might take the flak, instead of meat and bone. There may be some advantages, but the battlefield is becoming automated to the point thatvhuman influence of a highly complex and hostile environment is being lost (Not that a battlefield is humanly controllable)....I'm thinking West World on a truly mechanised industrial scale, instead of Yul Brynner with a dinky 6 shooter. YouTube - WESTWORLD - 1973 - TRAILER
