Israel unveils VIPer - portable hunter-killer robot

[PeterD]

"JERUSALEM - An Israeli defence firm on Thursday unveiled a portable robot billed as being capable of entering most combat zones alone and engaging enemies with an onboard armoury that includes a machine-pistol and grenades.


The VIPeR, roughly the size of a small television, was invented as part of Israel's efforts to develop weaponry that could reduce the risks to its forces from hand-to-hand fighting against Palestinian or Lebanese Hezbolla guerrillas."

The complete article is here (http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2007/March/middleeast_March114.xml&section=middleeast&col).

Yikes! I think that violates Asminov's laws!

[Taerzik]

A little late on my part but I just wanted to say that I love it, it looks great and of course, go figure, leave it to Israel to come up with a combat bot like this that's actually reasonably useable. Our own combat bots are great, but they're large, heavy, and made for open-area combat more than close up like these little monsters.
...
I think I know what I'll ask Santa Clause for...jk.