Tweet of the Day, That Thing Would Last Five Minutes Against The Black Bloc edition.

It’d almost be an act of cruelty to deploy one of those things. I say ‘almost’ because at the moment you can’t actually be cruel to a machine.

I stopped counting the failure points on that design after the first half-dozen. Yeah, I know: robotics was not exactly a mature science in 1924. But did anybody really think to look at the design? Sheesh.

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…and I’d say Robocop 0.5.

6 thoughts on “Tweet of the Day, That Thing Would Last Five Minutes Against The Black Bloc edition.”

  2. I’m thinking it was designed by the illustrator. At no point was an actual engineer even in the room.

  3. I remember designing things like that. In junior high.
    Although I’m pretty sure even a 13 year old me would have been puzzled at having both tracks *and* legs as essential.

  4. My immediate thought is those flails they mount on vehicles for mine clearing. Problem a) is that like tanks, they would need infantry support. Problem b) is the gunslinger girl one, an organization capable of it could solve the problem more efficiently with more conventional means.
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    My go to dream solution to riots involves quality Roman infantry. If we had enough ‘lost legions’ on hand, they would also be a source of political problems.

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