Army Draaaamaaaa: Robots Will Save The Day After SoCal Earthquake
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 19 of March , 2009 at 4:24 am
Am I the only one who couldn’t watch this Future Combat System promo piece with a straight face? Like, who actually writes dialogue like that? What I found most interesting, though, is as far as I know most of the robotic technologies are a lot less futuristic than the idea that there could be such seamless communication and interoperability going on. PackBots and FireScouts are already operational, and as far as unmanned ground cargo vehicles, the piddly one in the video has nothing on the Crusher UGV. Anyway, nice to know that our tax dollars are going to such a high quality production.
Incidentally, Firefox won’t let me access the Army’s Future Combat Systems webpage because of an invalid security certificate. Good to know they’ve got all that security stuff under control.
[ FCS ] VIA [ Danger Room ]
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Comment by Vanden
Made Thursday, 19 of March , 2009 at 8:14 am
The world would be at a loss if they didn’t save the engineer. But as usual it takes them a long time to realize that he is even there. That is the life of the engineer.
Comment by GRaben
Made Thursday, 19 of March , 2009 at 3:15 pm
Actually you CAN access the site, when you get the invalid security certificate error, click on the firefox “make an exception” button. After clicking ok a few times, you should get in… (btw you will see a warning about “you shouldn’t make exceptions” and such stuff) Who heeds those anyway? :)
