A Proper Use For A Segway

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-11-30 04:21pm

US military wants them as robots. Slap on a 50MW laser and give it some intelligent input and you've got Johnny Five baby!

Or maybe not.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2003-11-30 04:40pm

five had treads.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-11-30 04:43pm

darthdavid wrote:five had treads.

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Shut up.

*Wanders off muttering about similarities*

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-11-30 05:01pm

Johny didn't fall over when he lost power either.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-11-30 05:18pm

I believe this best be posted:

http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=segw ... eeds_to_be

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2003-11-30 05:40pm

kojikun wrote:I believe this best be posted:

http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=segw ... eeds_to_be

It is a government/military tradition to buy things that are more complicated and expensive than they need to be.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-11-30 08:16pm

Andrew J. wrote:
It is a government/military tradition to buy things that are more complicated and expensive than they need to be.

Well actually this is about the only kind of roll in which the massive complexity might be useful. I prefer the glorified Mars rovers though.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-11-30 08:23pm

If they want robots for the battlefields,then the segway is not what they need.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-11-30 09:03pm

The complication should be in the computers, not in self balancing systems. WTF? Why do you need self balancing systems? Thats stupid. Put the laser on a fucking UAV.