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Could a bomb disposal bot double as a delivery bot? Those things sit unused most of the time while it could be getting the coffee and donuts or making revenue f
by macinjosh 4y ago
Could a bomb disposal bot double as a delivery bot? Those things sit unused most of the time while it could be getting the coffee and donuts or making revenue for the city!
- mongol 4y agoSure, and the firefighters could bake the cakes!
- OJFord 4y agoJokes aside, in the UK at least I'm not sure they actually have much down-time. They're only permanently staffed in denser areas - in others they have other jobs but are on-call for their fire & rescue duties.
- grogenaut 4y agonot sure if you've seen a bomb disposal bot but they're often quite large, like riding mower large, and are pretty slow, and usually tethered instead of wireless. So not really a good crossover.
- csdvrx 4y ago> not sure if you've seen a bomb disposal bot but they're often quite large, like riding mower large, and are pretty slow, and usually tethered instead of wireless. So not really a good crossover. So you mean it could be improved and made cheaper by existing technology?
- grogenaut 4y agoBoth yes and no, they have smaller ones, but in some cases that's like saying "I'm going to run my 500 acre farm with this lawn tractor". It's big because bombs can be big and it needs lifting capacity. It also works in a variety of environments like water, fire, etc, sometimes they're hitting them with or using fire hoses from them. Tether is for several reasons including not running out of power or not losing connection while you're, you know, diffusing a bomb.
- soco 4y agoYou mean bomb disposal and bomb delivery bot? It could handle both tasks, once it's already there... rented part-time by different customers, one the mafia the other the local police tipped by an anonymous bot...