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Head Controlled Paintball Robot

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Tuesday, 31 of August , 2010 at 12:52 am

With just a little bitty Army contract, you can take that robot paintball turret that we saw a week or so ago, mount it on a QinetiQ SWIFT (an intermediate prototype between this and this), and rig it up to be controlled by head movements. It’s not just for the cool factor (although there’s definitely a cool factor); head control is easy to train, easy to use, and requires no hands. They’ve got the basic system running on this sweet little indoor tank, too:

Every office absolutely needs one of those.

[ Stratbot ]

Thanks Kent!

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Category: Military

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Comment by quantum_flux

Made Sunday, 3 of October , 2010 at 12:18 am

LMAO…indoor tanks is definantly not a good combo.

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Made Sunday, 22 of January , 2012 at 6:01 am

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