Snipers are used to using cardboard cutouts of bad guys to practice their deadly arts, but they have long needed better practice targets that move. As usual, robots are the answer. The Australian Defense Force and Marathon Robotics took a bunch of two-wheeled RMP 200 Segway robots, and placed hoodies on them just for kicks.
The robots are programmed to wander around randomly on the course just like people walking about and minding their own business. When the sniper picks off his target, the remaining robots all scatter automatically. Again just like people who are terrified and screaming.
It’s fun being a sniper. Until these bots start sniping back.
[Botropolis]
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Australian, military, Robots, Segway, snipers, training
Where is the video…please please find a video.
Someone could come with something better than using seven $6500 segways. How bout using a bumper-car like system with small remotes and targets—-the connection would run along the ground instead of the top.