Comments on: DARPA’s New Multi-Million Dollar “Terminator” Program http://www.plasticpals.com/?p=20631 Robots who are fun to be with! Sun, 31 Mar 2013 20:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Robotbling http://www.plasticpals.com/?p=20631&cpage=1#comment-4347 Robotbling Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:05:13 +0000 http://www.plasticpals.com/?p=20631#comment-4347 @ Josh

If you read the .PDF you’ll see they’re looking for it to do more than just throw grenades. It will be used to handle all sorts of different situations.

]]> By: Josh http://www.plasticpals.com/?p=20631&cpage=1#comment-4346 Josh Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:58:16 +0000 http://www.plasticpals.com/?p=20631#comment-4346 DARPA funds all kinds of wacky shit, not all particularly practical or long-lived (Remember the “Star Wars” missile defense system?) In any case, one wonders about the insistance on grenade-throwing—why wouldn’t you just build a grenade launcher (or any other weapon) into the thing?

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