Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00775
To: Pete McCarthy dilbertpete@hotmail.com
From: "George Rix" rix.g@bmts.com
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:17:23 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Beam Warbotics??
This came up a while ago as regarding to defenses against pets and wild
things that would like to snack on your bot, and got REALLY scary after a
short time. Nobody meant any harm (I hope) but we got kinda carried away
with the 10Kv Zapper guns and all that.
I doubt I'll talk again on this subject, but it seems interesting that you
thought of the Robot War things. I'd never have thought of that.
Signing off,
Rob Rix
'If anything can possibly go wrong, it probably already has'-Murphy's law
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>From: "Pete McCarthy"
>To: beam@corp.sgi.com
>Subject: Beam Warbotics??
>Date: Fri, Feb 19, 1999, 7:21 PM
>
> 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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