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March 28, 2012

New Military Robot Can Jump 30 Feet In The Air
— Ace

This is cool beans. The Sand Flea is designed for scouting the enemy.

How to ascend heights? I guess simply jumping turned out to be more effective than other methods.

Supposedly...

In the hands of a capable operator, it is reportedly accurate enough to jump through a second-story window.

Gotta watch the video. Very neat stuff.

Via Ken Wheaton.

Posted by: Ace at 12:17 PM | Comments (91)
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1 BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! The prank applications are potentially endless!

Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at March 28, 2012 12:20 PM (RD7QR)

2 You need a lot of Frontline to ward off that!

Posted by: dfbaskwill at March 28, 2012 12:21 PM (71LDo)

3 Bitch, please.

Posted by: the Saturn V rocket at March 28, 2012 12:21 PM (QTHTd)

4 I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 28, 2012 12:21 PM (+/C3g)

5 Not any fun till they mount a gun on it.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 28, 2012 12:21 PM (tf9Ne)

6 Can I surrender now?

Posted by: Comrade Arthur at March 28, 2012 12:22 PM (d9lOz)

7 Reading Robopocalypse now. It's really our only hope.

Posted by: USS Diversity at March 28, 2012 12:22 PM (vpe0k)

8 Cool robot. It's only a matter of time until they arm robots like this one

Posted by: Speller at March 28, 2012 12:23 PM (J74Py)

9 > 5 Not any fun till they mount a gun on it. Posted by: Buzzsaw I want to see two guns and have it fire them in mid-air - John Woo style.

Posted by: Comrade Arthur at March 28, 2012 12:23 PM (d9lOz)

10 Remember the movie "The D.I." with Jack Webb as the golden age Lee Ermey? There was a scene where he chewed the head off a recruit because he was scratching a sand flea during a training exercise and he made him find the dead flea and give it a Marine burial.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 28, 2012 12:23 PM (Af3Wg)

11 Any capable Taliban skeet shooter could take the sand flea out.

Posted by: Duh! at March 28, 2012 12:23 PM (ETgqz)

12 In his remake of Animal House, George Lucas is replacing the Belushi ladder scene with a over-sexed sand flea.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 28, 2012 12:24 PM (KNvk+)

13 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable tyrant.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 28, 2012 12:24 PM (8y9MW)

14 I mean, this could be right out of a smutty college movie: put a night vision camera on it, set it up outside the bathroom window of the eta beta pi sorority house, and have it jump up and down while taking pictures. It's comedy gold!

Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at March 28, 2012 12:24 PM (RD7QR)

15 As long as it can jump hills only as a means of of retreat, we should call it the GOP.

Posted by: Shiggz Rocketsurgeon at March 28, 2012 12:24 PM (RfvTE)

16 Damn you, Dr. Spank!

Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at March 28, 2012 12:25 PM (RD7QR)

17 11 Any capable Taliban skeet shooter could take the sand flea out. Posted by: Duh

You can't kill awesome.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 28, 2012 12:25 PM (KNvk+)

18 I want one!

Posted by: KennyM at March 28, 2012 12:25 PM (dQvkW)

That thing looks like it can survive a drop from altitude, including terminal velocity. Which means with a little more design work, the next Mars Rover could be dropped from orbit, and even with it's small size, could still traverse a lot more terrain than the last Rover did.

Posted by: MrObvious at March 28, 2012 12:26 PM (2uovW)

20 Any chance they could upscale that into a Monster Truck? Now that would be cool. In a redneck sort of way. NTTAWWT.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 28, 2012 12:26 PM (eHIJJ)

Any capable Taliban skeet shooter could take the sand flea out.

Maybe, but usually it's only the Japanese who want to date robots, the Talibs prefer goats.

Posted by: Speller at March 28, 2012 12:26 PM (J74Py)

22 No, I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

Posted by: Kent Brockman at March 28, 2012 12:26 PM (ggRof)

23 Yes, but does it have healthcare?

Posted by: dogfish at March 28, 2012 12:26 PM (NuPNl)

24 Can it hump a tank?

Posted by: mike at March 28, 2012 12:27 PM (RIT3J)

25 Jumps like Spike Lee trying to towel Carmelo Anthony

Posted by: kbdabear at March 28, 2012 12:27 PM (Y+DPZ)

26 Exxxxxcccelllleenntttt.

Posted by: CyberDyne Systems Mergers & Acquisitions Department at March 28, 2012 12:27 PM (5Rurq)

27 Can it jump horizontally, and does it have attachments?

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 28, 2012 12:28 PM (KNvk+)

28 <<Any chance they could upscale that into a Monster Truck? Now that would be cool. In a redneck sort of way. NTTAWWT.>>

We already have that capability. Since jumping a monster truck on the roof puts you on the first floor just like a tank going through the wall.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 28, 2012 12:28 PM (tf9Ne)

29 Whooooooooooooa.

Posted by: Brookstone Employee (BA in Humanities) at March 28, 2012 12:29 PM (/x4oj)

30 they need to paint flames on it

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 28, 2012 12:29 PM (8sCoq)

31 27 Can it jump horizontally, and does it have attachments?

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 28, 2012 04:28 PM (KNvk+)

That's the tethered version.

Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at March 28, 2012 12:29 PM (RD7QR)

32 All it needs is a heavy-guage, dual Gatlin cannon, eh? I like the possibilities.

Posted by: OCP at March 28, 2012 12:30 PM (eHIJJ)

33 I was just thinking, now Roomba can go upstairs

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 28, 2012 12:30 PM (8sCoq)

34 Hey! That was our idea!

Posted by: Airbus at March 28, 2012 12:30 PM (8y9MW)

35 32 All it needs is a heavy-guage, dual Gatlin cannon, eh? I like the possibilities.

Posted by: OCP at March 28, 2012 04:30 PM (eHIJJ)

And a loudspeaker blasting "Fock you, ahshole" before it opens fire.

Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at March 28, 2012 12:31 PM (RD7QR)

36 Bet we can talk the left into putting tollbooths on the border.

Posted by: Shiggz Rocketsurgeon at March 28, 2012 12:31 PM (RfvTE)

37 It needs a hoodie.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 28, 2012 12:31 PM (KNvk+)

I'm pretty sure these damned stink bugs are robot spies too

Posted by: canoedad at March 28, 2012 12:31 PM (A3zgF)

39 I was just thinking, now Roomba can go upstairs

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 28, 2012 04:30 PM (8sCoq)

My wife has threatened to divorce me for roomba

Posted by: The Jackhole at March 28, 2012 12:32 PM (nTgAI)

40 My wife has threatened to divorce mefor roomba

Then I humbly submit: You're doing it wrong.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 28, 2012 12:33 PM (8y9MW)

41 I want one! .....My kids are gonna want one, too!

Posted by: wheatie at March 28, 2012 12:33 PM (dEMjC)

In the hands of a capable operator, it is reportedly accurate enough to jump through a second-story window.

So it's like a robo-Raptor?

Now my Jurassic Park nightmares are going to come back with a vengeance.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at March 28, 2012 12:34 PM (4df7R)

43
Not any fun till they mount a gun on it.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 28, 2012 04:21 PM (tf9Ne)

Front Toward Enemy

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 28, 2012 12:34 PM (XCHGh)

44 Know who lives 30 feet up?

People who live in the projects in Brooklyn

RACISTS !!!!

Posted by: Spike Lee at March 28, 2012 12:34 PM (Y+DPZ)

45 Good God. Don't let the Daleks know about this.

Posted by: filbert at March 28, 2012 12:34 PM (smvTK)

New Military Robot Can Jump 30 Feet In The Air

Yeah, well, so can I.

On Mars.

Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at March 28, 2012 12:35 PM (+inic)

47 Ha- I don't know why, but that was the funniest thing I've seen all day. Someone should do a voice-over as the robot.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 28, 2012 12:36 PM (SY2Kh)

48 Boner inducing. May I touch the controls?

Posted by: Man in a lab coat at March 28, 2012 12:36 PM (BbX1b)

49 Can it open a fridge and fetch a beer?

Posted by: Purple Avenger at March 28, 2012 12:36 PM (+NVYG)

50 How's it going to get that kind of elevation out of sand?

Posted by: © Sponge at March 28, 2012 12:36 PM (UK9cE)

51 Soundtrack to the video wasn't Van Halen's "Jump," was it?

Or "Jump Around?"

etc.

Posted by: filbert at March 28, 2012 12:36 PM (smvTK)

Pretty neat, but mostly a toy. It takes a likkin' and keeps on tickin', but I noticed it was in an urban environment with hard surfaces to launch from and hard smooth surfaces to land on. What about long flights of stairs, dense vegitation, rocky terrain? What if it doesn't have a solid surface to launch from? Still just a toy I think.

Posted by: maddogg at March 28, 2012 12:37 PM (OlN4e)

53 The Russians don't like this one bit: Obsama prepared to shut the program down.

Posted by: USS Diversity at March 28, 2012 12:37 PM (vpe0k)

54 Maybe they could add a loudspeaker that plays the prayer from The Boondock Saints and then send this leaping robo-Raptor into a Taliban enclave. Equip it with guns, knives, throwing stars -- really Swiss Army Knife the thing -- and when the Muzzies start attacking it as an infidel, just let the gratuitous violence begin.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at March 28, 2012 12:37 PM (4df7R)

55 I for one welcome our new insect overlords.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at March 28, 2012 12:37 PM (ZKzrr)

56 Load it up with some C4 and your stealth attack becomes quite the tool.

Posted by: © Sponge at March 28, 2012 12:37 PM (UK9cE)

57

And now for something different.
A Joe Biden moment http://tinyurl.com/85jq9ta

Posted by: YIKES! at March 28, 2012 12:38 PM (Fx8df)

58 speaking of sand fleas

RdBREWER,

'Alyssa' has two A's. Not 42.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] at March 28, 2012 12:38 PM (qOfw/)

59 I'm pretty sure Ronco had these for sale in the 70's. As an add-on to the Pocket Fisherman.

Posted by: dfbaskwill at March 28, 2012 12:39 PM (71LDo)

60 Don't worry, its hard wired with the three laws of robotics.

Posted by: Jimmah at March 28, 2012 12:40 PM (UpwlP)

61 And now for something different.
A Joe Biden moment http://tinyurl.com/85jq9ta
Posted by: YIKES! at March 28, 2012 04:38 PM (Fx8df)

This point in our history will truly go down as the time that The United States of America lost its ever lovin mind.

That brain damaged idiot is one heartbeat away from being the most powerful man in the world.

Posted by: © Sponge at March 28, 2012 12:41 PM (UK9cE)

62 That brain damaged idiot is one heartbeat away from being the most powerful man in the world.

Even so, he'd still be an upgrade over Obama.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at March 28, 2012 12:44 PM (+NVYG)

63 Now we're talkin'! Installed a camera, a mic, a bigger battery, a transmitter and a gun! Hey. Why isn't it jumping anymore?

Posted by: Man in a lab coat at March 28, 2012 12:44 PM (BbX1b)

64 CNN Breaking News: Obama enjoys double digit lead over both Romney and Santorum in latest polls.

Posted by: © Sponge at March 28, 2012 12:44 PM (UK9cE)

65 Never mind the black helicopters, it's the black sand fleas that will get you.

Posted by: Ronulan at March 28, 2012 12:46 PM (axc/z)

66 How did Joe Biden tie his tie that morning? I'm surprised he can even button his shirt

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at March 28, 2012 12:46 PM (QTHTd)

67 Front Toward Enemy

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 28, 2012 04:34 PM (XCHGh)

Now that you mention it, putting a claymore on one is probably more feasible than twin Gatling guns.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 28, 2012 12:46 PM (v+QvA)

68 CNN Breaking News: Obama enjoys double digit lead over both Romney and Santorum in latest polls.

Free! Free at last!

Posted by: Greg's jizz at March 28, 2012 12:46 PM (QTHTd)

69 67 How did Joe Biden tie his tie that morning? I'm surprised he can even button his shirt

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at March 28, 2012 04:46 PM (QTHTd)

His staffers are all home health aides.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 28, 2012 12:47 PM (v+QvA)

70
Front Toward Enemy
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 28, 2012 04:34 PM (XCHGh)

Now that you mention it, putting a claymore on one is probably more feasible than twin Gatling guns.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 28, 2012 04:46 PM (v+QvA)

Yup. And SpecOps has a mini-claymore in the inventory that weighs less than a pound and fits in a BDU pants cargo pocket. Perfect for this application.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 28, 2012 12:48 PM (XCHGh)

71 Even so, he'd still be an upgrade over Obama.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at March 28, 2012 04:44 PM (+NVYG)

I just don't know about that. He's gung ho for ANYTHING that asshole puts out there, I'd imagine that he'd cream his jeans for anything Reid throws down if he were in charge.

Posted by: © Sponge at March 28, 2012 12:49 PM (UK9cE)

My inner engineer/geek is giggling like a schoolgirl.....

(Civil engineers don't deal with "dynamic" structures)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at March 28, 2012 12:49 PM (0xqzf)

73
Hate to be off topic again seems the Obama campaign is accusing Republicans of politicizing the you know what incident. http://tinyurl.com/7ctzohv

Posted by: YIKES! at March 28, 2012 12:51 PM (Fx8df)

64 CNN Breaking News: Obama enjoys double digit lead over both Romney and Santorum in latest polls.

Posted by: Â© Sponge at March 28, 2012 04:44 PM (UK9cE)

His internal polling must be absolutely atrocious.....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at March 28, 2012 12:51 PM (0xqzf)

Prop a camera on it and pop it through the 2nd floor window of the Chi O's sorority house.

Then again, too 1980s--they give away the footage for 29.95 a month.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 28, 2012 12:51 PM (uslQu)

It really does need sound effects, like buzzing sounds when crawling, and of course a boing boing sound when jumping. Maybe even a crash sound when it lands.

What these designer dudes seem to lack is imagination.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 28, 2012 12:52 PM (TOk1P)

77 CNN Breaking News: Obama enjoys double digit lead over both Romney and Santorum in latest polls of brain-damaged Canadian adults.

Posted by: CNN Atlanta at March 28, 2012 12:54 PM (ggRof)

78 I'm pretty sure slow Joe has to use a clip-on tie. No way he can handle actually tying one.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at March 28, 2012 01:04 PM (+NVYG)

79
My inner engineer/geek is giggling like a schoolgirl.....
(Civil engineers don't deal with "dynamic" structures)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at March 28, 2012 04:49 PM (0xqzf)

What's the old joke?

Mechanical Engineers design weapons

Civil Engineers design targets

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 28, 2012 01:10 PM (XCHGh)

LOVE IT.

Still not quite as cool as the synchonized flying swarm robots, though.

Posted by: reason at March 28, 2012 01:10 PM (+hPIb)

81 Those wacky MIT kids will rule the world! Seems like this might be useful in exploring other planets...

Posted by: @ParisParamus at March 28, 2012 01:12 PM (+csHE)

82 Imagine if it hat a +10 Vorpal Sword!

Posted by: dnder at March 28, 2012 01:22 PM (axc/z)

83 Wrap an Ewok body around that thing, and you've got something there!

Posted by: HoundOfDoom at March 28, 2012 02:00 PM (KhioZ)

84 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at March 28, 2012 02:04 PM (7W3wI)

85 One more step towards the Tachikoma.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachikoma

We still need to work on the AI with the little girl voice and the massive firepower aspect.

Posted by: epobirs at March 28, 2012 03:27 PM (kcfmt)

86 Plus it has a high pitched siren to warn anyone it's jumping.

You could say it's a screamer of a sand flea.

Hardest hit; The T-1000's and Skynet.

One day someone from the future's is going to pop out and start throttling all these morons who keep making these gadgets THAT THEY'VE SEEN IN HORROR MOVIES!!!!!

Stop with the apocalyptic robotics please.

Posted by: Inspired by disgust at March 28, 2012 04:55 PM (CP+yl)

87 Those big jumps both had "cuts". the first is really subtle. Me thinks some shenanniggins. Still cool!

Posted by: cdnright at March 28, 2012 08:06 PM (1cnkn)

88 I work for Dick Jones, dammit! Dick Jones!

Posted by: Hayabusa at March 28, 2012 08:06 PM (B+qrE)

89 Awesome³

Posted by: kkkkkkk at March 30, 2012 03:33 PM (KNvk+)

90 Hello i am Darren Butt

I enjoy reading your articles

I am looking forward to read more..

Posted by: Darren Butt at March 31, 2012 03:51 AM (npBxG)

91 test ...

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Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 31, 2012 06:14 AM (X3lox)

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