DPRG mailing list archives: [DPRG] Homebrew robot fights crime

Mon Feb 25 15:58:26 CST 2008

It does look a little top heavy in the video. Apparently most of the bad
guys are not very smart though. He said in one of the interviews that
they sometimes throw bottles at the robot. The robot responds by firing
the water canon at them. 

-Steve

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:37 -0800, Chris Jang wrote:
> This was very funny.
> 
> The machine looks like a naval Phalanx CIWS gun turret but is really
> made from a chicken smoker? It seems kind of top heavy and prone to
> tipping over. My first thought was that people could just push it over
> like tipping a cow. But then I thought, smarter bad guys would jam or
> hack his radio comms to disable or take control of the robot. Maybe
> the designer has considered this?
> 
> 
> "R. Steven Rainwater" <srainwater at ncc.com> wrote:
>         This guy built a teleoperated robot that he's using to chase
>         away
>         criminals near his pub. I think we need some robots like this
>         in Deep
>         Ellum...
>         
>         http://robots.net/article/2476.html