Pentagon Explores Using Segways in Battle (others explore wearing tinfoil)

I offer this not only because it scares me silly, but because I welcome the jokes about Dubya not being able to ride one. Although, I do wonder now who owns the rights to these beauties.

In the meantime, please remember to be nice to your computer and appliances. Just a heads-up.

http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=tech&cat=segway_human_transporter

A University of Pennsylvania lab is getting a robot-controlled Segway to communicate with an autonomous robotic blimp and small, truck-like vehicles so they can work as a team to find a designated object in a certain geographic area. The robots would navigate and communicate with each other autonomously, but a human would oversee the whole network.

"The human operator can basically interrogate the robots," said Jim Keller, a project manager. "If a robot has seen something it thinks is interesting, it will send an alert back. The human operator will get more images by bringing in other robots to look at the same location from whatever their perspective is."

at a campaign event I attended last weekend. Drew a lot of attention from people passing by.

Hmmm. Clark. Segway. Military.

PNAC Conspiracy! :tinfoilhat:

I vote for research to find a military application for the RAZOR SCOOTER!

(Edited for spelling).

that these are already becoming the Daleks!

EXTERMINATE!

EXTERMINATE!

As they evolve, they will certainly try to be more like humans.

So unless we change our ways, they will certainly kill us all.

:hi: robots!