Does a robotic bear shit on the battle field?
I dunno about soldiers, but I wouldn’t find it too comforting to be laying there injured and a frickin’ robot comes to rescue me.
I, however, would think it was totally awesome if a robot rescued me.
I’d think that if I was injured, and pinned down somehow, I’d be grateful for anything that came and got me, robot, human, ape, etc…
Yeah, but it’s not a Bear, it’s a B.E.A.R. - Bloody Ersatz Acronym Really.
OK, it’s Battlefield Extraction and Retrieval Robot, but it doesn’t look anything like a bear. It’s Johnny Five
I dunno, this article has some close ups of the thing’s head. It looks to me like it’s just made for target practice! Putting something that cutsey on the battlefield is like handing teenage boys whiskey and dynamite!
We need a more informed opinion. Where are blondebear and swampbear when you need 'em?
So what? This thing grabs you and is like “come with me if you want to live!”?
I think I would prefer being rescued by a more awesome looking robot
I suspect it’d probably be more practical to train actual bears to rescue soldiers.
Might well be the idea. The head doesn’t seem to be functional…perhaps it’s function is to draw fire away from the tender stuff.
It looks like the head contains cameras for binocular vision - as I understand it, this is a telepresence robot, so the bodyplan is designed to somewhat mimic that of a human to make operating it more intuitive.
That robot lands dead-center in the uncanny valley; creepy as hell. I’d rather have Johnny 5 save me!
“Oh, bother!” said the B.E.A.R. as a grenade exploded in its thorax, “I’ve got a rumbly in my tumbly,”
NO DIS-A-SSEMBLE NEWTON CROSBY.
I’m distressed that it would pick me up and carry me like a bride as the website shows. Perhaps dragging would be better as to not give the bad guy a clear shot at me?
Have you ever heard of ricochet?
It’s made by Vecna? I wonder what it does with the bodies after it “rescues” them.
Leave it to the military to develop a robot named after a godless killing machine that doesn’t do any damage to the enemy.
The robot’s humanoid body and teddy bear-style head give it a friendly appearance. “A really important thing when you’re dealing with casualties is trying to maintain that human touch,”
This just made me giggle. 