Look out, it’s a remote-controlled Segway with a machine gun – shoot it! Australian-based Marathon Robotics recently sold eight of the robot practice targets to the US Marines for a cool $US2 million. Check out this video of them in action:
Marathon Robotics says “the target can move unpredictably in a way that no other target on the market can.”
Called “Rover”, the robots are built on an armoured Segway, and have been used by the Australian Special Air service and other elite units, like the SAS, since 2008.
[Military Times via Camp Pendleton Patch]
Barry
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at 12:04 PMThis is a little old, I remember reading about the US Armed forces testing these out and buying some. The Aussies have been using them for awhile. It was even an article on Giz.
Danny Allen
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at 12:05 PMYep, and I’ve linked to Giz story from 2010.
Barry
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at 12:28 PMSorry, didn’t see that :-)
Danny Allen
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at 1:09 PMAll good mang
Barry
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at 12:05 PMI love Aussie know how :-)
Adz
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at 12:27 PMSo you have to join the Army to shoot people on Segways?
Mr Odd
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at 1:46 PM“So you have to join the Army to shoot people on Segways?”
No, but if you start shooting random dudes on Segways out in the street the police will have an issue with that.
Mr Biggles
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at 3:24 PMThis video is actually quite humorous when viewed without sound…
Franz
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at 8:43 PMWhy not just make a segway bot that can actually fire guns and then chase the ‘bad guys’ around in Afghanistan etc via controller.