Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #00665



To: Pete McCarthy dilbertpete@hotmail.com
From: "A. Keith Fligg" kfligg@azstarnet.com
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:35:10 -0700 (MST)
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Beam Warbotics??


Yea. And then have it chase your dog, right? This sounds much too much
like the two previous (that I remember) 'How to make your BEAM 'bot attack
your cat threads.' Oh well...

- Keith


On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Pete McCarthy wrote:

> Hello List,
>
> I feel it's time for a meaningless robotics question
>
> Does anyone feel that a beam robot can be heavily modified to become a
> killer robot. You know, take a beam robot, strap a video camera to it,
> make it able to be controlled by radio communications (make the robot
> able to do what it normally does like a photovore seek light, but a
> radio controller can override it), and attach some weapons to it(pipe
> bombs, guns, heat sinking missles, thermonuclear balistic missles. (OK,
> MAYBE NOT THE THERMONUCLEAR BALISTIC MISSLE PART).
>
> Oh Well, if this is possible (FAT CHANCE), then BEAM might have a chance
> at robot wars
>
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________
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