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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel developing battlefield robot snake
2009-06-09
A robot snake with a camera and microphone in its head is the IDF's latest battlefield weapon, according to a Channel 2 report broadcast Monday.

The channel showed video of the snake twisting into caves, tunnels, cracks and buildings, broadcasting pictures and sound back to a soldier controlling it with a laptop computer.
A snake to hunt Allan's cockroaches in their natural habitat
Clever sods, those Israelis.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#13  I don't think that Hamas has ever developed anything useful

Oh yeah? What about "Sewage Tidal Wave Surfing"?
Posted by: DMFD   2009-06-09 19:10  

#12  A couple of snakes:

youtube vid: japanese water snake robot

CMU swimming snake
(includes a snake to work inside your body in the OR room)


CMU's robot snake cross sections

A Scarab
lunar robot
Posted by: 3dc   2009-06-09 19:05  

#11  DMFD, I don't think that Hamas has ever developed anything useful. For that matter, I don't think that Muslims in general have developed anything useful in the last 600-700 years, despite what Bambi said.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2009-06-09 18:24  

#10  So as long as Hamas doesn't develop a robot Samuel L. Jackson, it'll be OK.
Posted by: DMFD   2009-06-09 17:57  

#9  No sense in limiting its usefulness, Darth. Make it administer a 10,000-volt charge, then move on. I'm sure that would really be upsetting to the population of Lebanon, Gaza, or the West Bank.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2009-06-09 16:11  

#8  Damn good video, couldn't understand a word, and didn't need to.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2009-06-09 14:23  

#7  Now if they can get it to spit acid and fly....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2009-06-09 13:21  

#6  There's a Video here
Posted by: Willy   2009-06-09 13:09  

#5  Uhhh....you mean like when they find out the sheep is not real????
Posted by: Kelly   2009-06-09 12:58  

#4  How about a sexy robot sheep that explodes when... um... penetrated?
Posted by: DarthVader   2009-06-09 12:40  

#3  A flaming robotic wild boar wouldn't be bad either.
Posted by: Lumpy Angaith3743   2009-06-09 09:29  

#2  Now what they should do is develop a 30-foot-long, bulletproof anaconda that can slither at 20mph and crush a car in its coils.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2009-06-09 08:54  

#1  The Japanese have made some really amazing robot snakes. They work better on water than land. Seeing them swim is a bit strange...

Of course, there is not a whole lot of water in Gaza.
Posted by: 3dc   2009-06-09 08:52  

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