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Re: DARPA: Field Testing Four Legged Robot
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2013, 06:26:12 am »
Few more years and we'll have these roaming around.

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Re: DARPA: Field Testing Four Legged Robot
« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2013, 03:46:13 pm »
Don't the Israelis already have something semi-autonomous along those lines?

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Re: DARPA: Field Testing Four Legged Robot
« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2013, 04:28:27 pm »
Don't the Israelis already have something semi-autonomous along those lines?

The Israelis have deployed Unmanned Armored Vehicles (called Guardium) along the Gaza border.  See link:
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,89536.0.html

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Re: DARPA: Field Testing Four Legged Robot
« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2013, 09:40:20 pm »
The Israelis have deployed Unmanned Armored Vehicles (called Guardium) along the Gaza border.  See link:
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,89536.0.html

How much retrofitting would it take to arm something like that?

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Re: DARPA: Field Testing Four Legged Robot
« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2013, 10:33:22 pm »
How much retrofitting would it take to arm something like that?

My guess:  They are armed from the get-go.  Why retrofit?

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Re: DARPA: Field Testing Four Legged Robot
« Reply #6 on: January 02, 2013, 02:30:40 pm »
My guess:  They are armed from the get-go.  Why retrofit?

Good point.  However, I would suspect that from a purely public relations point of view, the Israelis have probably not armed them as of yet; having armed semi-autonomous robots roaming through Gaza Strip and the West Bank without a very particular provocation to respond to would be an invitation to further calumny from the forces of anti-semitism, aka progressivism.

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Re: DARPA: Field Testing Four Legged Robot
« Reply #7 on: January 02, 2013, 03:35:34 pm »
Good point.  However, I would suspect that from a purely public relations point of view, the Israelis have probably not armed them as of yet; having armed semi-autonomous robots roaming through Gaza Strip and the West Bank without a very particular provocation to respond to would be an invitation to further calumny from the forces of anti-semitism, aka progressivism.

Given the Israelis are fighting for their very EXISTENCE, I find it hard to believe that give a flip about PR