Chances are, robots will destroy us all. But would the merciless killing machines dare slay one of their own…well…half-own? We consider this Robocop suit an insurance plan.
Reader Alex points us to this robotic McGruff costume police departments are now purchasing for their “scaring the poop out of little kids”" program. It looks about ten times as effective as the old one.
MGM announced its intentions to resurrect the Robocop franchise earlier this year, but you know Hollywood, it’s all just meaningless backseat fellatio until we see the first promotion poster/they call us back about that role. And from the looks of it, Robocop isn’t losing the 80s style…but he is getting a red Cylon-eye makeover. Oohh, maybe there’s a bad Robocop? (Note: that question is rhetorical, so don’t tell us in the comments if you’ve read the spoilers or something.)
newVideoPlayer("bumbot2.flv", 463, 387,""); When the sun goes down in Rufus Terrill’s neighbourhood, criminals and vagrants swarm in like Night of the Living Homeless. You remember when we first told you about BumBot, the solution contrived by the former DoD contractor. “If it wasn’t chasing criminals, it’d be fighting Osama bin Laden.” Granted, it’s only equipped with a deBUManising water jet turret, but his dreams were bigger: “I wanted to put a flamethrower on it, but they wouldn’t let me do that.” The police shut down his Taser plans too. You saw the original pics, but now here’s a video of BumBot in action, from Colbert. [Colbert]
Believe it or not, Rufus Terrill, owner of a downtown Atlanta bar named O’Terrills, has had it with the drug dealers, vandals, and other riff-raff that frequent the area around his business. So, he has done what any sane American man would do in this situation—build a robot out of a meat smoker to law down the law. The “BumBot,” as many of O’Terrills’ patrons have dubbed it, is basically a meat smoker mounted onto a three-wheeled scooter. Armaments include a spotlight, loudspeaker, water cannon and an infrared camera. Plus, the whole thing is covered in rubber for protection.
