Comments on: Precision Urban Hopper Demoed http://www.botjunkie.com/2009/09/16/precision-urban-hopper-demoed/ Jonesing For Robot News Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:14:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Kimiko Shauer http://www.botjunkie.com/2009/09/16/precision-urban-hopper-demoed/comment-page-1/#comment-12378 Kimiko Shauer Sat, 26 Nov 2011 03:20:09 +0000 http://www.botjunkie.com/?p=2663#comment-12378 I found your blog's link put up by a friend of mine on Facebook. Thanks for putting useful information on the world wide web. It's hard to find this stuff nowadays. I found your blog’s link put up by a friend of mine on Facebook. Thanks for putting useful information on the world wide web. It’s hard to find this stuff nowadays.

]]> By: John Nagle http://www.botjunkie.com/2009/09/16/precision-urban-hopper-demoed/comment-page-1/#comment-4577 John Nagle Sun, 20 Sep 2009 06:19:50 +0000 http://www.botjunkie.com/?p=2663#comment-4577 That's a useful little device. The concept was from a <a href="http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=2976" rel="nofollow">project at Sandia</a> to develop a mobile land mine. This was a spherical device which fired a piston out of the bottom to shoot itself a few feet into the air. After it crash-landed, a weight inside was cranked around until the piston was at the desired angle for the next takeoff. The Sandia concept was that these things would be spread around, and when one of them detected a target worth attacking, like a convoy, it would call for backup. Nearby mines would converge and attack the target. That didn't quite work out, but it wa a step towards this new thing. That’s a useful little device. The concept was from a project at Sandia to develop a mobile land mine. This was a spherical device which fired a piston out of the bottom to shoot itself a few feet into the air. After it crash-landed, a weight inside was cranked around until the piston was at the desired angle for the next takeoff.

The Sandia concept was that these things would be spread around, and when one of them detected a target worth attacking, like a convoy, it would call for backup. Nearby mines would converge and attack the target.

That didn’t quite work out, but it wa a step towards this new thing.

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