Date: 05/24/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: no keywords

U.S. soldiers in Iraq are giving nicknames (like Scooby-Doo) and forming emotional bonds with bomb-defusing robots. They have come to regard them as teammates, according to the Colin Angle, Founder & Chief Executive of iRobot Inc. “Please fix Scooby Doo because he saved my life,” a soldier told repair technicians, according to Angle’s account at [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/us-soldiers-bond-with-irobots-bomb-defusing-robots/