retroremakes
February 19th, 2010, 20:05
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/500x_ships-robots.jpg (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/ships-robots.jpg)The robots that scrub the decks on the USS Freedom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Freedom_%28LCS-1%29)? They're just simple Roombas (http://gizmodo.com/tag/roomba/).
The three bots go by the names Scooba Stevens, Chief Miles O'Brien, and ITSN Unger, referencing Big Daddy, Star Trek and The Odd Couple, respectively.
Very cute, but little do we know, DARPA charges us like $250,000 after slapping on a US flag sticker. [MilitaryTimes (http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/16/freedoms-other-unmanned-systems/) via BotJunkie (http://www.botjunkie.com/2010/02/19/navy-gives-up-swabbing-decks-uses-roombas-instead/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Botjunkie+%28BotJunkie%29)]
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http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/Mf7Mn2Y_Fe0
More... (http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Mf7Mn2Y_Fe0/the-navys-fleet-of-uber-classified-super-ultra-high-tech-ship-cleaning-robots)
The three bots go by the names Scooba Stevens, Chief Miles O'Brien, and ITSN Unger, referencing Big Daddy, Star Trek and The Odd Couple, respectively.
Very cute, but little do we know, DARPA charges us like $250,000 after slapping on a US flag sticker. [MilitaryTimes (http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/16/freedoms-other-unmanned-systems/) via BotJunkie (http://www.botjunkie.com/2010/02/19/navy-gives-up-swabbing-decks-uses-roombas-instead/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Botjunkie+%28BotJunkie%29)]
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http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/Mf7Mn2Y_Fe0
More... (http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Mf7Mn2Y_Fe0/the-navys-fleet-of-uber-classified-super-ultra-high-tech-ship-cleaning-robots)