U.S. Military Develops Jumping 'Urban Hopper' Robots

[WrongSprite]

You have go to be joking. You are joking right?

Sir, I never joke about autonomous death machines.

Quote of the year.

 

[Sevre]

Earnest why must you make my day even worse with your death machines?

 

[Frank_Sinatra_]

One step closer to a Gecko.

Spoiler: Gecko

 

[Fenring]

I really want to see a picture of these, actually sounds pretty cool, I'm all for unmaning the frontlines. On the flipside, Skynet. I'm conflicted.

 

[Internet Kraken]

Why can't we just use mini helicopters?

Why do we need fucking pogo bots?

 

[traceur_]

That is EPIC!!

When I saw the picture I was hoping to read about soldiers on super pogo sticks but the robot thing is fucking sweet.

 

[Asehujiko]

Got something better for you to image sir.
You and your team are doing a normal patrol. The town leader comes and asks you to help them out because they think theres ieds being made in the homes. So of course you tell him you will do a house by house search. So you start the search but you come up to a house. You signal a stack up. do a quick sweep on the door. Signal a lean and go. and rush through the house in a fast clear. but as you rush in the door rounds go off. you fall to the ground your chest feels like you been hit by a sledge hammer. your alive cause you had your iba vest on. but now you whole team is dead. and your taken to be toruged.(no clue how to spell it) and for kicks they film it and then when they finaly kill you after weeks of this. they upload the video of the whole thing to youtube and your son or daughter happens to be searching for "solider" videos. and he or she clicks on the link. and watches that. (youtube doesnt catch everything) now tell me you want one of those pieces of metal to take some hits? or you want some flesh and blood solider to take some?


probably cant even think about it cause you live in some safe suburbs were the only gun shots you've heard are ones on tv or video games.

Odds of that happening vs odds of somebody accidentaly getting flattened by a non functional pogo-stick-with-m16-taped-to-it? Heck, what was the last time an insurgent organisation dropped an entire squad in seconds without anybody nearby noticing, uploaded footage of them interrogating a soldier on youtube, not getting the clip kicked out an then appearing on a specific person's search instead of any of the 220k other clips marked with "soldier"?

Despite living in a safe suburb, i DID think about and subsequently dismissed the idea as being a laughable piece of scaremongering propaganda.

 

[Earnest Cavalli]

Got something better for you to image sir.
You and your team are doing a normal patrol. The town leader comes and asks you to help them out because they think theres ieds being made in the homes. So of course you tell him you will do a house by house search. So you start the search but you come up to a house. You signal a stack up. do a quick sweep on the door. Signal a lean and go. and rush through the house in a fast clear. but as you rush in the door rounds go off. you fall to the ground your chest feels like you been hit by a sledge hammer. your alive cause you had your iba vest on. but now you whole team is dead. and your taken to be toruged.(no clue how to spell it) and for kicks they film it and then when they finaly kill you after weeks of this. they upload the video of the whole thing to youtube and your son or daughter happens to be searching for "solider" videos. and he or she clicks on the link. and watches that. (youtube doesnt catch everything) now tell me you want one of those pieces of metal to take some hits? or you want some flesh and blood solider to take some?


probably cant even think about it cause you live in some safe suburbs were the only gun shots you've heard are ones on tv or video games.

Presumptuous aren't we? And did you completely miss the bit where the entire anecdote was an excuse to reference Nabokov? Don't get me wrong, your version would totally make all the camo-clad, sexually repressed teen boys smile warmly as they clean and reassemble their father's irresponsibly stored 30.06, but since I'm more interested in amusing myself than your local chapter of the Future Right-Wing Radio Talk Show Hosts of America club, I'm gonna have to decline.

 

[Kajin]

You guys have seriously gotta cut back on the robotic uprising jokes. We all know it's coming, sure, but it's starting to get old.