Vecna is making robots!

[Umbran]

Okay, a waldo to help get men off a battlefield makes a certain amount of sense.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6729745.stm

But the thing is made by Vecna Technologies! No so much for collecting the wounded as for collecting souls! The Robot of Vecna?

 

[Mycanid]

What if the body should NOT be moved?

Kinda scary actually. Doesn't lifting a body up off the ground make it more open to gunfire and whatnot? At least lying on the ground offers a LITTLE protection.

I'd much rather have a person come and assess the situation properly....

 

[Nifft]

That's half-way to awesome! I want to see TEDDY BEAR ROBOTS WITH GUNS. Right now, please.

Support your right to arm bears! -- N

 

[Tonguez]

That's half-way to awesome! I want to see TEDDY BEAR ROBOTS WITH GUNS. Right now, please.

Support your right to arm bears! -- N

You've got a point. Afterall if they can have a teddybear in every team why even have human soldiers? Just send out the teddies to fight the wars - then you get Zero casualties (and after seeing the cutey faces no one will want to hurt the bears either

 

[Meloncov]

What if the body should NOT be moved?

Kinda scary actually. Doesn't lifting a body up off the ground make it more open to gunfire and whatnot? At least lying on the ground offers a LITTLE protection.

I'd much rather have a person come and assess the situation properly....

It'll be remote controlled.

 

[Tonguez]

and talking about cutey faces - when are they bringing out the Barbie version? I know that if I were wounded on the battle feild I'd be happy to look up and find myself in the arms of a living doll

 

[D.Shaffer]

...How soon before we can arm these suckers?
I want my army of invinsible death bear robots, damn it.

As is we're already working on replacing solders. Look up the Talon SWORDS. Those actually make more sense as combat units over the teddy nurse.

There's also the Marine's Gladiator.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

The Gladiator is a better platform, but honestly it could have done with some alternate control schemes and a different arms mix.

Personally I'd rather see it using the new autofollowing programming they made for the self-driving cargo truck to follow a member of the weapons squad. And the controller should essentially be a back-up device. Instead just give each fire team leader a short-range laser designator mounted to the rifle and use a shielded camera that only picks up polarized light in the proper range. If they need the Gladiator to fire the leader just has to laze it instead of requiring a marine to take his concentration off his surroundings to aim for the robot.

As for weapons mix they look to have done a good job but the load mixes I've seen looks too light to me. If the droid is carrying the weight and ammo a deuce or a MK17 would've been preferable, but it's using a standard turret mount so there should be a way to retrofit heavier in the field. And where they usually have the line charge I'd much rather see a SADS tied to the turret so the bot could automatically aim at fire in response and the operator would just have to fire at what it was already aimed in on.

 

[crazy_monkey1956]

In reference to it being made by Vecna Tech...one has to wonder how much is "out there" in terms of unintentional D&Disms in the real world. One could almost concoct a conspiracy theory about it if one's reality perceptions were a little skewed.

Edit: As an example, I just googled Orcus and found both Orcus-tech and Orcus Retail Solutions. Eep.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

In reference to it being made by Vecna Tech...one has to wonder how much is "out there" in terms of unintentional D&Disms in the real world. One could almost concoct a conspiracy theory about it if one's reality perceptions were a little skewed.

Edit: As an example, I just googled Orcus and found both Orcus-tech and Orcus Retail Solutions. Eep.

Actually I ran a modern campaign on precisely that premise. It was fun to use bits of press goodies and promotional material from real companies to screw with the players.