BLADE-WIELDING BOTS conquer humans in RADIO DEATHMATCH The inevitable fight to the death between humanity and the soulless hordes of Skynet's robot army came a step closer recently, after hideously beweaponed drones vanquished their human adversaries in the merciless arena of the proceedings of the US communications regulator – the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Deathbot …
Mysterious benefactor supplies FCC panel members with auto-mowers prior to presentation of the case, the damn things are just too convenient to risk being made inoperable due to pesky things like broadcasting in a restricted band. Won't somebody please think of the FCC!?!
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So who care's if it pisses off some geeks looking for booze in deep space, right?
We're the freakin' FCC! We don't mow our own lawns.
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so long as the system does not mount its horizontally-directed beacons higher than 24 inches from the ground
Some lawns are laid on a slope. Some houses are built on hills. Some people live near radio telescopes. If there's an intersection of the three, the cunning robots may yet blind us fleshies to the doubtless mortal threat posed by interstellar masers.
I would prefer snow-blowing robot overlords, since mowing a lawn is fairly trivial compared to moving a literal ton of snow. Lawns grow on a predictable schedule and can be maintained at a time of your choosing. Try saying that about snow.
If a lawnbot and a snowbot ever had a territorial disagreement, it's difficult to say which would win. Yes, the lawnbot has blades, but the snowbot could throw shit 10 or more meters.
Yes, the lawnbot has blades, but the snowbot could throw shit 10 or more meters.
If it is throwing the snow, it isn't properly equipped. If it came in an updated laser-wielding model, I would lay down some cash for that.
I already have a robot lawnmower (and the design for mine has essentially been around for 20+ years--electrolux started selling it in the 90's, hardly cutting edge--PUN!). And it doesn't need these silly beacons. http://www.electroluxgroup.com/en/the-lawn-mower-no-one-will-use-4355/
With the GPS and GLONASS satellite information plus dead-reckoning and obvious collision avoidance algorithms... beacons are silly and stupid. Your yard (garden) has very little in common with the floor in your house.
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