Can you imagine what kind of boring life you’d grow up to have if what you played with as a Japanese kid was a virtual commuter train simulator? All you do is go from one commuter stop to the next, picking up other sad sack salarymen, all the while enjoying the sights that is Japan’s urban jungle. Makes me want to off myself just thinking about it.
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There have been robots patrolling the sunny sands of Iraq since the initial invasion, but until now, they’ve merely been there to scope stuff out. That was then, this is now. According to Noah over at the always-awesome Danger Room blog, the military has just deployed their new “special weapons observation remote reconnaissance direct action system” (SWORDS) that have been in development for the past few years. What are the SWORDS, exactly? Oh, just some bomb-disposal robots armed with M249 machine guns. Holy shit, robots with machine guns.
This is a pretty huge step forward for… Continue Reading»
