Bear robot rescues wounded troops

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  • KainTSAKainTSA Join Date: 2005-05-30 Member: 52831Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1632235:date=Jun 7 2007, 05:17 PM:name=Liku)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Liku @ Jun 7 2007, 05:17 PM) [snapback]1632235[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    I'm guessing this robot's really slow, so what's going to stop people from taking it down and shooting at the soldier it's carrying?
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    I think the bear would fall under the medic role, meaning you can't shoot it by the geneva convention <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

    Besides, wounded soldiers do more damage to their side than dead ones do. Its better for the enemy to ignore the wounded soldier.
  • AbraAbra Would you kindly Join Date: 2003-08-17 Member: 19870Members
    Iam just imagining those clumsy metallic BOTHANDS on my dying, bullet holed, broken body.

    "IM' DYIINGG!"
    "I.WILL.SAVE.YOU.PRIVAT.A.B.R.A.LET.ME.LIFT.YOUU."
    *SNAP*
    "ARRRRGHHH"
    *cue pain*
  • SmoodCrooznSmoodCroozn Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22310Members
    Hmm... so what happens if the bot takes more than an hour to get back?
  • HazeHaze O RLY? Join Date: 2003-07-07 Member: 18018Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1632577:date=Jun 8 2007, 10:34 PM:name=SmoodCroozn)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(SmoodCroozn @ Jun 8 2007, 10:34 PM) [snapback]1632577[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Hmm... so what happens if the bot takes more than an hour to get back?
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    The pizza gets cold.
  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    And you don't have to pay.
  • DrSuredeathDrSuredeath Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8217Members
    But if you don't have to pay, you'll just be inciting more traffic accident.
  • Nil_IQNil_IQ Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15520Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1632491:date=Jun 8 2007, 01:30 PM:name=KainTSA)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(KainTSA @ Jun 8 2007, 01:30 PM) [snapback]1632491[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    I think the bear would fall under the medic role, meaning you can't shoot it by the geneva convention <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
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    Because of course all insurgents obey the Geneva convention.
  • BlooBloo Village Fool of UWF Join Date: 2006-11-09 Member: 58497Members
    Anyone know if they are going to put an actual bear-suit on it?
  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1632699:date=Jun 9 2007, 04:17 PM:name=Bloo)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Bloo @ Jun 9 2007, 04:17 PM) [snapback]1632699[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Anyone know if they are going to put an actual bear-suit on it?
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    That's a <i>great</i> question.
  • GreyFlcnGreyFlcn Join Date: 2006-12-19 Member: 59134Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1632639:date=Jun 9 2007, 12:59 PM:name=Nil_IQ)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Nil_IQ @ Jun 9 2007, 12:59 PM) [snapback]1632639[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Because of course all insurgents obey the Geneva convention.
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    Same could be said for our side...

    It's not torture... it's just "creative" interviewing.

    <!--quoteo(post=1632699:date=Jun 9 2007, 11:17 PM:name=Bloo)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Bloo @ Jun 9 2007, 11:17 PM) [snapback]1632699[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Anyone know if they are going to put an actual bear-suit on it?
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    I can see it now.

    [youtube]dFFn1hu6azg[/youtube]
  • SmoodCrooznSmoodCroozn Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22310Members
    The bear should have tentacles.
  • GreyFlcnGreyFlcn Join Date: 2006-12-19 Member: 59134Members, Constellation
    edited June 2007
    <!--quoteo(post=1632736:date=Jun 10 2007, 04:07 AM:name=SmoodCroozn)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(SmoodCroozn @ Jun 10 2007, 04:07 AM) [snapback]1632736[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    The bear should have tentacles.
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    Internet.

    <img src="http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/content/images/2005_4813.JPG" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />

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    Althought it does already kinda look like it.

    <img src="http://www.technovelgy.com/graphics/content06/bear.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />

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    Apparently the bear has competition for "cute robot who grabs people and carries them around."

    <img src="http://img.timeinc.net/time/2006/techguide/bestinventions/images/new/medicine6.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />

    <a href="http://www.time.com/time/2006/techguide/bestinventions/inventions/medicine6.html" target="_blank">http://www.time.com/time/2006/techguide/be.../medicine6.html</a>
    <a href="http://www.bmc.riken.jp/~RI-MAN/index_us.html" target="_blank">http://www.bmc.riken.jp/~RI-MAN/index_us.html</a>
  • DrfuzzyDrfuzzy FEW... MORE.... INCHES... Join Date: 2003-09-21 Member: 21094Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1632397:date=Jun 8 2007, 08:10 AM:name=Geminosity)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Geminosity @ Jun 8 2007, 08:10 AM) [snapback]1632397[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    <b>Dying Soldier:</b> "uhhhh... tell... tell my family I loved them..."
    <b>B.E.A.R:</b> "I AM COLD AND UNFEELING!!!"

    :o
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    haha i almost changed my sig to that XD
  • AlignAlign Remain Calm Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5216Forum Moderators, Constellation
    It should have a single red eye and no ears.
  • SidSid Corwid of the Free Join Date: 2003-01-28 Member: 12903Members, Constellation
    If they're going to use it for troop rescue, they should at least add some kind of... back shield to the Teddybot, to keep the soldier in it's... creepy arms... from being shot. Or at least a... wound-recognition system.

    That way, when the bear comes back to the medic-tent, he doesn't drop off a mangled corpse... o_O; "Another day saved by Teddybot!"
  • Soylent_greenSoylent_green Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11220Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    If I had to be rescued by a really creepy robot, could it be this one?


    [youtube]ae06LFa3i38[/youtube]
  • UltimaGeckoUltimaGecko hates endnotes Join Date: 2003-05-14 Member: 16320Members
    Why do I feel as though the world literacy rate is dropping?

    <!--QuoteBegin-the 20 line article as the basis for this thread...+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(the 20 line article as the basis for this thread...)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->The Bear is <b>controlled remotely </b> and has cameras and microphones through which an operator sees and hears. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->




    I think the entire feasibility of this robot during a combat situation is in question. They might as well just put guns on it and send it into combat areas instead of using it to take people out.
  • SwiftspearSwiftspear Custim tital Join Date: 2003-10-29 Member: 22097Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1633005:date=Jun 11 2007, 05:50 PM:name=UltimaGecko)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(UltimaGecko @ Jun 11 2007, 05:50 PM) [snapback]1633005[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Why do I feel as though the world literacy rate is dropping?


    I think the entire feasibility of this robot during a combat situation is in question. They might as well just put guns on it and send it into combat areas instead of using it to take people out.
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    Exactly, to me it looks like a pretty formitable combat entity. It can control how tall it is, useful for gaining different shooting prespectives. It is cold and unfeeling, and it is 95% terrifying.

    The thing is, I imagine the american military is a bit wary of producing $500,000 robots that are quite likely to just get shot with a rocket launcher when they can just make people do the dirty work. In the mean time they have alot of $500,000's to spend so they are trying to make robots that stay out of the line of heavy fire. This is the army that still sends it's troops into desert combat with M4 assault rifles, a weapon so well documented of jamming when interfered with sand it's funny.
  • AlignAlign Remain Calm Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5216Forum Moderators, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1632997:date=Jun 12 2007, 12:19 AM:name=Soylent_green)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Soylent_green @ Jun 12 2007, 12:19 AM) [snapback]1632997[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    If I had to be rescued by a really creepy robot, could it be this one?
    [link omitted]
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    Looks Silent Hill-esque...
  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    Yeah... it is pretty creepy and the vibrator-like sound doesn't help.
  • BlackMageBlackMage [citation needed] Join Date: 2003-06-18 Member: 17474Members, Constellation
    that and it almost has the form of two guys with backpacks...
  • Mr_JeburtOMr_JeburtO Join Date: 2003-08-29 Member: 20340Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1632397:date=Jun 8 2007, 07:10 AM:name=Geminosity)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Geminosity @ Jun 8 2007, 07:10 AM) [snapback]1632397[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    <b>Dying Soldier:</b> "uhhhh... tell... tell my family I loved them..."
    <b>B.E.A.R:</b> "I AM COLD AND UNFEELING!!!"

    :o
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    u win the thread <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
  • juicejuice Join Date: 2003-01-28 Member: 12886Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1632218:date=Jun 7 2007, 03:22 PM:name=Hybridclaw)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Hybridclaw @ Jun 7 2007, 03:22 PM) [snapback]1632218[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    I wonder what Steven Colbert would say about this...
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    You win the psychic award of the week. The bear robot was featured in the Colbert Report last night! It's not on Youtube yet but should be soon eh. Hilarious. BTW after that segment he interviews Ron Paul, which is cool.
  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    He said bearbot. Stealing my words. I was cracking up, though.
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