# Where are all the giant robots?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 30, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-giant-robots/319282 "2005-08-30T17:08:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-giant-robots/319282/41 "2005-09-02T01:15:45Z")

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spider bots and other multi-legged bots would probably be much more useful for scouting.

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**Author:** ![Hombre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@Hombre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hombre)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-giant-robots/319282/42 "2005-09-03T01:13:27Z")

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Regarding military tool angle, Giant Robots are called targets.

When I was a child I used to crash my toy metal cars together with no damage what so ever…

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**Author:** ![slaphead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@slaphead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slaphead)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-giant-robots/319282/43 "2005-09-03T15:26:26Z")

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> [@Shalmanese](#):
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> spider bots and other multi-legged bots would probably be much more useful for scouting.

I would think this is the way to go too. Once the research into plastics that can approximate muscle functionality with more power pays off, build something vaguely like a giant scorpion with a 120mm cannon and a .50 in the tail, program it to obliterate anything that looks vaguely hostile, and send 500 of them in the general direction of the enemy while a few hundred UAVs provide aerial support. Then watch it all play out live on Google Earth 6.0 Military Edition while giving the occasional command update.

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