Pentagon Explores Using Segways in Battle

Yahoo News ^ | 12/1/03 | Michael P. Regan - AP

[NormsRevenge]

SegWarriors :-\

[Howie66]

Surely this is a joke.........

[Cicero]

Finally, Amazon.com has found someone who can afford to buy a Sedgeway. The military could probably buy one for less than the price of a toilet seat. :-)

[NormsRevenge]

Mon Dec 1, 3:00 PM ET

Brett Browning, an assistant system scientist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, puts a Segway soccer playing robot through its paces on campus with the help of Segway riding student Jeremy Searock of Nazareth, Pa., Saturday Nov. 22, 2003.

[Samwise]

ping

[GeronL]

I think Registered had pics of this a long time ago =o)

Although it was parody at the time

[xrp]

ALREADY POSTED

[openotherend]

I'm late, I'm wet, and I think i'm supposed to be in a battle someone.

[Cold Heat]

LOL!

Terminator story comes true.

Next up..........The series 2 mod kit.

[AgentEcho]

Who needs SegWarriors when we have these:

[GladesGuru]

""They will come together not as a master-slave relationship, with the human telling the robot what to do," , said computer science professor Manuela Veloso. "The human and robot will be part of the same task."

GREAT! Just what the world needs - a robotic soccer player. The soccer Moms will be thrilled when their lil' ones get roboticly booted off the field.

And the adult soccer hooligans will finally meet a worthy foe - one with the reflexes of a rattlesnake and no ethical or moral sense what-so-ever. Even better than a reptilian soccer player!

[snippy_about_it]

Wow Samwise, you're not going to believe this but SAM and I were just talking about Segways and then you ping us here! LOL. SAM wants to know if you are reading our minds!!!

[NormsRevenge]

Already Posted as --- U.S. considers turning scooters into war robots .

Completely different titles. Thanks!

[Ramius]

I'm not sure, but I think they said the same about these newfangled things that the army called "Trucks" that were propelled by that newfangled gawdawful unreliable "internal combustion" engine.

I'll bet there's a quote from an army sarge somewhere that swore they'd still need to take horse teams into battle in order to pull the newfangled "trucks" out of the mud.

[SAMWolf]

Samwise - the all knowing and all wise!

[Samwise]

[thoughtomator]

Sadly, there's no feasible way to get the enemy to ride them voluntarily.

[SAMWolf]

LOL!

[snippy_about_it]

ROTFLOL!!!!

[Chummy]

..reminds me of the old Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch in which scientists developed the World's Funniest Joke to defeat the enemy.

And now for something completely different......