Granted, the current state of the art has the militaristically suborned Roomba equipped with Airsoft pellets and a simple laser site - but surely one can see this is just a small slide down the slippery slope to armor piercing ammo and death lasers on our Roombas!?? What's next - mind control TiVo?
It's time to campaign most stridently against the weaponization of Roombas! Who's with me?
The originator of this modification has posted about it at IsoBots.
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Leave it to the boys to militarize the Roomba. I'd rather have one that could follow me around and shoot hersheys kisses or M&M's(gently) in the direction of my mouth.
Great find, this is pretty funny.
Soon on the Discovery Channel's Futuristic Weapons show (the one with the big bald guy)... Roombas versus ED-209...
crabby, I'd rather they work on the modification that does the dishes and changes the cat litter.
Serge - that would be reminiscent of the Lilliputians v Gulliver - might work if the dang thing was prone on the ground asleep, but once it's up I think it could just stomp the poor little guys. Did you notice how much the extra equipment slows the Roomba down? It couldn't out race a snail.
Yeah... Besides, we know how well ED-209 normally behaves even after one has obeyed its command to lay down one's weapon.
By the way, is it my imagination or has RobotWars disappeared from the Discovery Channel?
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