DARPA is considering the proposal, according to the article.
One can only wonder if knife-fighting will be part of the training.
link to an AP wire on the subject (Cached due to the story being old.)
Pray for Mojo…
Oh the jokes…it boggles.
Wow. A knife-fighting monkey. There are some things that are possibly too much to even make a joke out of.
Ah yes… I watch the local news daily hoping to see a whole crew of planet of the apes types roll up on a meth lab and go “apeshit” on the perps.
But alas, this story is a hoax. Somehow a joke among cops about sending out the “SWAT monkey” got picked up and carried away by an imaginative reporter.
AnatomicallyCorrect: Damn them to high heavens! Damn them to myriad papercuts and sweat reeking of uric acid!
Caffeine-freak cappuchino SWAT monkeys shall knife them in back alleys!
(I suppose it’s for the best, though. If monkeys aren’t used, robots will be. And robot knife fights are legendary!)
Maybe it will be used to poison their dates?
Hehe, well played.
“Monkey hate frisk”
S.W.A.T. Monkey, that funky monkey…
“Everybody laughs about it until they really start thinking about it”
… then they laugh harder…
Please don’t Special Primates And Nasty Knives your monkeys.
…has anyone seen MonkeyMule around?..
Well, why not a SWAT monkey? We’ve had this guy for a while now.
I especially like the theft retrieval system.