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OSP Robot Is Human Sized Roomba For Oil Spills
Posted by Gizmodo US Edition at 8:10 AM on March 5, 2008
Designer Ji-hoon Kim has come up with an ingenuous idea for cleaning up oil spills. Using various features such as boom control modules, solar panels, oil protection boom, communication modules, boom connectors, and propulsion modules the OSP robots work together to surround an oil spill site with an inflatable barrier. Once the site has been contained the cleaning crews can easily remove the oil from the water. If saving the planet wasn't cool enough, an OSP robot is actually the size of a grown human and a group of bots can easily be deployed via helicopter or boat. The only thing we can think of to make these bots better is a speaker that would play their slogan as they work, DEPLOY - UNITE - SIEGE. [Yanko Design]
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Manve
Posted 9:49 AM 5/3/08
this is truly awesome.what?this is just a concept and we wont see it until..well, ever?damn.give me a hand here optimism
Manve
Evan394
Posted 9:49 AM 5/3/08
I don't know. I'm a little concerned about the whole "deploy" "unite" "seige" thing.
Imagine a couple hundred droning computer voices chanting in unison:
"Deploy Unite Seige"
"Deploy Unite Seige"
"all your base are belong to us"
yikes!
Evan394
jetexas
Posted 9:49 AM 5/3/08
But can they join together to form a bigger fighting robot with a lion head?
jetexas
GIZisGOD
Posted 9:49 AM 5/3/08
@Yeebles: Damnit! You read my mind! Lovely idea if it works.
GIZisGOD
DaOtter
Posted 9:49 AM 5/3/08
@Xavoc: More often known as applied phebotinum?
Seriously a good idea, though. And they can be self-lubricating, too! ^_^
DaOtter
Xavoc
Posted 9:49 AM 5/3/08
More handwavium eh?
Xavoc
tamoko
Posted 9:49 AM 5/3/08
Cool idea... besides, who would enjoy an oil slick then a robot?
tamoko
qbrad
Posted 9:49 AM 5/3/08
Boom!
qbrad
dwight-schrute
Posted 9:49 AM 5/3/08
Sorry for the double post but that is freakin' awesome!
dwight-schrute
nutbastard
Posted 9:49 AM 5/3/08
@ripfire4:
but think of all the poor oil spill workers that won't have jobs anymore!
oh wait. they don't have jobs...
nutbastard
dwight-schrute
Posted 9:49 AM 5/3/08
That was a close one. One more boom and the inventor of the device could have been sued by his Jobsness.
dwight-schrute
DeadWriter
Posted 9:49 AM 5/3/08
These robots are slick!
DeadWriter
Yeebles
Posted 9:49 AM 5/3/08
the thing is I bet everyone her can't wait for the next oil spill to see these guys do there stuff.
Yeebles
Windhawk
Posted 9:49 AM 5/3/08
Oil spill... I just want a robot that can clean my gutters without going all rolley polley olley on me.
Windhawk
ripfire4
Posted 9:49 AM 5/3/08
See. Robots are good for something: tedious manual labor.
ripfire4
Xavoc
Posted 10:58 AM 5/3/08
@DaOtter: I'd rather see them create that survival barrel instead. Seems to me it would be much more useful in everyday humanity disasters than the occasional oil spill.
That barrel would have been useful during... Oh, Katrina, the Tsunami, it would even be useful for rapidly deploying refugee camps for people displaced by war, famine, George Bush...
Xavoc
ripfire4
Posted 12:06 PM 5/3/08
@nutbastard: Somewhere out there, an oil spill worker is crying. You're so mean!
ripfire4
nutbastard
Posted 2:28 PM 5/3/08
@ripfire4:
that's what i'm here for.
nutbastard
surfer88
Posted 5:58 PM 5/3/08
I give Woot.com a month to have these things on their site. Bag-O-Crap anyone? I'll take three!
surfer88
Daimyo Nintendo
Posted 4:14 AM 6/3/08
Its bloody sad we need these, but its about time. Lots of money should go into research and development for these little bots. Oh God I pray for the day the population of OUR gorgeous blue planet can say F*CK YOU fossil fuel and F*CK YOU coal...dirty motherf*ckers.
Daimyo Nintendo
Knirfie
Posted 9:15 AM 6/3/08
thats a lot of boom.
Knirfie