Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00674
To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Pete McCarthy dilbertpete@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 23:25:21 -0500
Subject: Beam Warbotics??
>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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