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If Found, Call Montreal Police Bomb Squad

By Chief Robot | Filed in Robot News, Security

1-andros-f6aMontreal police have had a bomb disposal robot named Andros since 1995.

A much newer version is shown here.

The older version of Andros has a large control box with toggle switches and a tv screen.  The Montreal police department will be replacing Andros as he is getting old.

Andros has been used to x-ray packages and safely dismantle them.  One part of Andros is removable and the bomb squad kept misplacing it. So they wrote on it,

If found, please call Montreal police bomb squad.

Now they will lose Andros forever to a newer model.

Since 2001, Andros has been involved in over 300 incidents.

Our question today is what happens to old robots?

Where do robots go when they die or are no longer useful?

Are their parts reused for something else or are they thrown on the trash heap?

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Segway’s Firefighting Robot

By Chief Robot | Filed in Robot News, Security

segway-firefighterSegway introduced a new robot this week at the Robo Business conference in Boston.

The robot is based on the  RMP 400 robotic platform and can move at 18 miles an hour while carrying up to 400 pounds.

It is also armed with a water cannon than can fire 10 gallons of liquid per second.

Segway envisions the robot being used for mostly fighting forest fires, but also a small amount to be used for crowd control.

Check out the video at Popular Mechanics.

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Mini Helicopter Drone

By Chief Robot | Filed in Robot News, Security
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The first fully legal UAV for emergency services, the  Draganflyer X6 Police Helicopter, has been unveiled.

The X6 Police Helicopter comes with 6 rotors.  It can fly autonomously or by remote control. It also has an anti vibration camera mount, allowing it to shoot high definition video as well as stills.

This bad boy is already being used by Canadian police.

Check out the drone spying on a high rise apartment  after the break.

Link via (Calgary Herald) via (Gizmodo)

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Robot Nets Burglars

By Chief Robot | Filed in Robot News, Security

JAPAN/The T-34 robot is a robot developed jointly by two Japanese companies, tmsuk Co LTD and Alacom Co LTD.

The 4 wheeled robot can move a t a maximum speed of 10km/h and can be controlled in real time by a cellphone.

As you can see from the photo above, our new robot overlords also like to go fishing for us humans with nets.  The robot is laden with sensors to detect intruders or burglars and then shoot the net at them.  No word on how effective the net actually is or when we can actually buy one.

Link via (LiveNews)

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Meet Victoria University’s Marvin

By admin | Filed in Robot News, Security

MarvinMarvin, a security robot from Victoria University in New Zealand, has many emotions.

Under the watchful eye of professor Dale Carnegie, Marvin is used as an active research tool for students.  unfortunately this means that Marvin spends a lot of time in pieces.

When Marvin is not in pieces he serves as a security guard with emotions such as happiness, sadness, anger, surprise.  He is also capable of understanding speech.

So far thousands of hours have been spent building Marvin by professor Carnegie and his students.  Keep up the great work!

Link to Dominion Post’s video here.

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