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Re: [OT] Mecha - coming to a forest near you!

From: Control Robot <cqin@e...>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:44:02 -0600
Subject: Re: [OT] Mecha - coming to a forest near you!

Well, from the video, it seems it could go after quadriplegic infantry
with
no problems :)
So what exactly could this thing do that a vehicle with catepillar
tracks
couldn't?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 7:09 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] Mecha - coming to a forest near you!

> At 11:12 PM -0700 6/19/02, Ted Arlauskas wrote:
> >A subsidiary of John Deere is developing a hexapod machine
> >for logging.  Check out the videos of it walking in the
> >woods - very impressive.  If you squint a little you can
> >see it armed and chasing infantry ...
>
> It'll have to get a lot faster than that before it's chasing
infantry....
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> --
> Ryan Gill			    rmgill@mindspring.com
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