Comments on: Can the Machines Fight the Undead?

By: rhunter42dragon

rhunter42dragon — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:55:13 +0000

I find myself thinking back to a show called Battlebots (is anyone familiar with the show?). My favorite type of bot was called a spinnerbot. It was basically a remote controlled car covered by a high speed spinning shell with some kind of weapons (blades, hammers, etc.) attached to it. The spinning weapons would smash anything that came close, making this type of bot virtually invincible. Add in a simple computerized brain programmed to seek out zombies, a recording of human voices to attract zombies, and solar cells to keep it powered, and you’ve got an automated weapon that will destroy hordes of zombies without posing any significant threat to humans!

By: 3-15 INF

3-15 INF — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:59:41 +0000

um… this scenario would leave the computer nerds as the last survivors- fuck that

By: KillerB

KillerB — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:05:38 +0000

Have you guys checked out the RIPSAW. It is a 60+mph remote operated tank that can mount all sorts of weapons. Hell it even has 2 built in Claymore mines on each side. I saw this thing in Popular Science or Popular Mechanics (can’t recall exactly) and there are videos of it on You Tube. The driver can be miles away in a concrete bunker and send this thing out to destroy the evil dead. For the operator it will be like a video game but for the zombies it will be like the hellish fire of Satin himself. As far as robots that think on their own we are just a few advancements away from that. I still say we need to keep us humans in the loop at all levels. It would suck to fight off and win the zombie war only to have to fight the terminators. Keep that in mind two sci-fi wars one after the other come on is that what we really want??????????? A UAV that is small and cheap for recon missions would also be a great thing to have. Send it up and do progressivly larger circles and then plan your route. You are only putting a machine at risk so why not. Who knows it may evn work as a distraction to the Zeds. If there is a large group just fly in low and the sound my lead them away. We will not know untill the zombies attack but it may work.

By: Trail

Trail — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:59:11 +0000

I envision arnold schwarzenegger as the terminator single handedly exterminating the zombie hordes. That would be awesome. I think at out current technological level robots would most likely be used as surveillance tools.

By: zom-bi-nator

zom-bi-nator — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:03:04 +0000

i dont think these weapons would really be that affective because they are designed to kill humans not the undead as was the problem in the book world war z a good example is a grenade witch uses shrapna to kill its enemies but wat would happen if the enemie couldnt bleed out or feel pain?l

By: Etienne

Etienne — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:28:28 +0000

Nowadays there is many recognition and comparative soft wares, it would be easy to recognize heads for the machines and zombies wouldn’t be particularly interested in them. So I’m guessing it would be easy for them to take out many zombies in a short amount of time.
A problem would be that that kind of robot is only available at army installations, and they would probably be instructed on killing anything that looks like a human, thus they would be one more thing to worry about.

By: Phantom-edge

Phantom-edge — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:41:06 +0000

Hmmm…robots my 4th favorite subject to talk about for starters I do believe that science will be the cause for our zed damnation but at the same time it could save us. First of I don’t expect something like a gundam or a treminator to be produced this early in humanity but there could be human controlled machinery ….we already have planes tanks and even subs and with japans help we could improve already exsisting robots…..and in the case of nano technology,it can be used to eliminate the virus or agent all togheter in early cases….heck theycan cure cancer already why not that?only problem ,is that I only see the wealthy having this privilige such as right now

By: Someguy

Someguy — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:46:30 +0000

It’s simple really. The machines could be outfitted withFLIR Infrared Thermal
Imaging Cameras. Since zombies are dead, they would have no heartbeat, and thus
no body heat. That’s how machines would tell the difference. Of course, the recently
turned could still pose a threat for about 30 minutes or so, giving the body time to
cool down enough to register on a pre-programmed threat scale.

Nice idea bringing up the bots’.

By: Dreamornaut

Dreamornaut — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:51:23 +0000

I think it should be remembered that even now a fully autonimous robot still will be functioning within extremely narrow peramiters. It’s not the first time this has been done, there was an attempt in the early 90′s to make a fully autominous battlefield robot, but the technology just wasn’t there and it flopped during testing. The best way to put it is what Michio Kaku said in 2057 about the intelligence capabilities of robots being, “about the intelligence of a cockroach. A really dumb cockroach. I mean a really, really dumb cockroach.” At least that’s close to what he said without looking it up. There might not be much that comes of it.

By: the other, other mike

the other, other mike — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:16:57 +0000

Military robots are in the field making a world of difference, but most hometown armories aren’t going to have anything bigger than a UAV. Large scale use of robots won’t happen until a much later stage in an outbreak. An RC car with a camera or IED are probably easier for most people to set up, and for the few who are more capable with their electronic toys, and have some scrap laying around, a battle bot style fighting machine might be a good idea. no ammo and no personal risk if it gets overwhelmed.