Robot to throw out first pitch @ Pirates game

[WharfRat]

That's a great use of our tax dollars. A car that can throw a baseball.

I wonder if it has a decent four-seamer?

You'll be commenting on how great it was that we made a bunch of robo cops and crime went down.

Hey, cops I can get behind. They actually serve a purpose beyond throwing a baseball. Unless they can modify this thing to use baseballs as a weapon.

[Madison]

The S-3, which weighs about 200 pounds and resembles a small car, the Sherpa DM, a heavy-duty robot made for the Army by Lawrenceville start-up Re2 Inc., and the Talon, which is made by a Boston firm.

Why do I get the feeling this is the opening line to a very odd joke?

[reznorsboy]

Poor batting practise pitchers loosing there jobs to a machine!!

[Simulacrum]

anyone else picturing the robot from rocky IV or johnny 5?

I was picturing something tougher, like the evil robot from Robocop- AT 180 or whatever it was called.

[ZeroGravitas]

Um, don't these people watch science fiction movies? There's no way those things don't go berserk. Like the Defense Department could ever build a robot that doesn't turn on humanity. I'm telling you, there'll be chaos in that stadium.

Then we're all doomed.

(Okay, so I just noticed that the game was last night. But it'll happen one day. James Cameron told me so.)

[SHOCKandAWE]

CMU has created some great inventions that can be used for our safety in this country. My wife works there and I have seen some up close. They are really neat to see and I am sure will come in handy in the future somehow. We just dont know yet

[Kingctb27]

Pretty cool if you ask me.