Exterminate! Exterrrrminate!
So, I was reading this story online about about Sohgo Security, a Japanese company, is developing a robot for security purposes -- to patrol buildings at night and check for intruders. Apparently the cool thing about these robots is that they're powered by fuel cells.
But truthfully, what surprised me more is how much they look like Daleks from the BBC's televised version of Doctor Who. I mean, it's kinda uncanny: The garbage-can shape, the little wheels for motion concealed under the metal skirt. Even the function of the robots seems oddly Dalek-like:
The robot sends alarm signals to a security center when it detects flame within 10 meters and people within 8 meters. It also intimidates possible thieves with alarms, flashing lights and loud recordings of the words "thief" and "wait."
Posted by Clive Thompson at June 30, 2003 11:13 PM
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Like Daleks, it looks like any plans the security robots may have for world domination would be arrested by an inconveniently-placed flight of stairs.
Posted by: Debbie Chachra at July 1, 2003 11:17 AM
Ahahahaha!
Yeah, I always wondered how the Daleks handled the terrain on all those outdoor planets they colonized (which all somehow looked like suburban Manchester).
Posted by: Clive at July 1, 2003 11:36 AM
Great! What are actors, poets, and those recenetly released from penal or mental institutions supposed to do for employment? Putting security guards out of work! I hope these bots are like the Cybermen, and a handful of gold-dust in their ventilators makes them all kaput!
Posted by: Erik Weissengruber at July 2, 2003 12:24 PM
Heh. They'll have to make a Version 2.0 of these 'bots, which read novels at work while they're bored.
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Like Daleks, it looks like any plans the security robots may have for world domination would be arrested by an inconveniently-placed flight of stairs.
Posted by: Debbie Chachra at July 1, 2003 11:17 AM
Ahahahaha!
Yeah, I always wondered how the Daleks handled the terrain on all those outdoor planets they colonized (which all somehow looked like suburban Manchester).
Posted by: Clive at July 1, 2003 11:36 AM
Great! What are actors, poets, and those recenetly released from penal or mental institutions supposed to do for employment? Putting security guards out of work! I hope these bots are like the Cybermen, and a handful of gold-dust in their ventilators makes them all kaput!
Posted by: Erik Weissengruber at July 2, 2003 12:24 PM
Heh. They'll have to make a Version 2.0 of these 'bots, which read novels at work while they're bored.
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