I thought bomb squads used robots to extract explosives in a safe manner. When said robot drops potentially live grenades AND THEN RUNS OVER THEM with its treads, I don’t think the robot is doing a very good job.
The robot was put into action by the San Francisco PD yesterday when they discovered the grenades in a garage. If you skip to the 2:30 mark in the video, you can watch the robot drop a grenade onto the ground, and then at 3:40 you can see its operator direct the bot on top of the grenade, as even the news anchors can’t help but ask, WTF?
The grenades had belonged to a recently deceased man, and his family discovered them while going through his stuff. Fortunately, this fail did not reach epic status, especially since this was next to a bunch of businesses, but this was definitely an exemplary display of incompetence. There’s also a pretty good second opinion on the entire affair here. [YouTube]
BCK
Saturday, February 5, 2011 at 9:38 PMIt looked as tho @ 2:32 it dropped 3! and then another a few seconds later that was picked up by the reporters . . . .
Ba-baow.
Steve
Saturday, February 5, 2011 at 9:52 PMIt’s just a grenade… Press right trigger to throw back!
In all honesty, this isn’t some car-bomb or IED, it’s just a couple of grenades some old coot stockpiled (no doubt in case the FBI raid his house). Clear 50 meters and you’re all set. Hell, this thing wouldn’t even scratch the Hurt Locker bomb suit.
fired
Monday, February 7, 2011 at 12:20 PMrobotcop is soooo getting FIRED!