SKIRMISHER

Vecna Robotics’ flagship product, the patent-pending Battlefield Extraction and Retrieval Robot (BEAR) somehow reminds me of the Appleseed manga. The BEAR’s main use is to retrieve the injured from the field of combat without risking another human life.

It’s cool, if you’d ask me. Plus, it also has other combat support uses, like loading vehicles, carrying heavy equipment, props for George Bush’s photo-ops, and waking up dead-drunk American soldiers stationed in beautiful tropical assignments.

Vecna describes it as:

…a marriage of three elements: A powerful upper body controlled by hydraulics; an agile mobility platform that features two independent sets of tracked “legs”; and dynamic balancing behavior, or DBB. DBB is the capability of the robot to balance itself while on the balls of its “ankles”, as shown in the standing image of the BEAR, at right. In fact, the BEAR will be able to remain upright whether balancing on its ankles, its knees, or even its hips.

I’m just wondering if it could be used to drag Ann Coulter out of her cave and pummel her until she admits to shameless plagiarism.

Stumble it!