Balloon + Robot = Whatever This Thing Is

[HardOCP News]

Robots are going to KILL US ALL!!! Probably not this one though. A small breeze or a desk fan would be the end of this thing. The skateboarding part looked pretty cool too.

 

[cageymaru]

Steve This is MUCH worse than all the other robots that mimic us! In WWII Japan sent bomb balloons into mainland America. More than 1,000 landed in California out of the over 9,000 that were launched. Imagine that they sent these robots instead! Give them some phazer guns, which aren't that far fetched since the US Navy has laser weapons on their ships nowadays. They could float, target civilian targets, shoot, disrupt communications with jammers, self explode, and cause all types of chaos! Even if you shoot it out of the air, you see how they can land upright and keep going! Just give it 4 legs and we are DOOMED!

 

[modi123]

I dig thinking the perpendicular thinking that came up with tweaking a robot's use of mass and weight. Funding well spent.

 

[D4rkn3ss]

and boy does it look creepy, imagine being snuffed by that thing! and you would never hear it coming

 

[Lord of Shadows]

Kind of neat, but after they get walking and such pinned down they need to gradually add weight and remove the need for the balloons

 

[MavericK]

Interesting idea, though I don't see it being all that practical in the long term.

 

[tunatime]

Why not just lose the legs at that point and make a drone blimp?

 

[amddragonpc]

Looks harmless enough .... till it explodes because it is filled with hydrogen gas.

 

[cageymaru]

Interesting idea, though I don't see it being all that practical in the long term.

Let it float over a battlefield during a war. If it gets shot down then it can become a listening post.

 

[modi123]

.. or a series of landmines.

 

[Azphira]

Looks harmless enough .... till it explodes because it is filled with hydrogen gas.

 

[P4B]

looks like a drunk floatbot

 

[Jagger100]

If they were buoyant, a couple of drone engine/blades would be faster and more agile than legs.

 

[Jagger100]

Steve This is MUCH worse than all the other robots that mimic us! In WWII Japan sent bomb balloons into mainland America. More than 1,000 landed in California out of the over 9,000 that were launched. Imagine that they sent these robots instead! Give them some phazer guns, which aren't that far fetched since the US Navy has laser weapons on their ships nowadays. They could float, target civilian targets, shoot, disrupt communications with jammers, self explode, and cause all types of chaos! Even if you shoot it out of the air, you see how they can land upright and keep going! Just give it 4 legs and we are DOOMED!

Pretty sad army if you can bring them all down with a pin.

 

[Kelby]

Pretty sad army if you can bring them all down with a pin.

or a summer breeze.

 

[modi123]

or a summer breeze.

Then douse the rest in used Summer's Eve.


This brings a whole new level of philosophy surrounding how many spindly legged war-droids can dance on the head of a pin.