Navy Gives Up Swabbing Decks, Uses Roombas Instead
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 19 of February , 2010 at 5:39 am
You’re looking at the Navy’s newest recruits: from left to right, CS3 Scooba Stevens, Chief Miles O’Brien, and ITSN Unger. I kid you not, that’s what they’ve been named. The iRobot Scooba and Roombas are just part of an entire assemblage of robots who clean the floors on the USS Freedom, one of the newest and most ridiculously expensive warships in the Navy.
Apparently, the robots are generally free to roam around the ship on their own… Crew member still have to do some sweeping, but the robots help keep things tidy on a day to day basis. Give it a couple years, or maybe a decade, and the robots will be running the ship while humans do the sweeping. I’ll be more efficient that way.
VIA [ Military Times ]
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