“Rodent” is definitely the fashionable robot body-form for 2009
… because here’s another one of ‘em. SCRATCHbot is designed with a highly sensitive set of whiskers for feeling its way through rubble, perhaps to rescue people from collapsed buildings or natural disasters.
I reckon there’s probably some mileage in a Saturday morning kid’s cartoon called Robot Rescue Rodents. No sign of robot capybaras yet, though…
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:07 am
They’re coming, Paul, they’re coming. In their kevlar smart armor and their night-vision capybaras goggles.