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January 24, 2009

Dead or alive, you're coming with me

There's no way this could go wrong...for instance, at the top of an escalator.

Japanese researchers in Tokyo on Wednesday unveiled a robotic mall cop, a two-foot-high security guard on wheels that can track down bad guys running amok on commercial property and disable them with a 'Spider-Man' like web.

Oh, wait, they only have single-story malls in Japan, don't they?

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1 They don't really have malls per-se (at least not in Tokyo). They have multi-story department stores of all sorts, but the 'malls' are city-style shopping areas.

Posted by: Hermit Dave at January 24, 2009 11:06 AM (WhFvm)

True, but they do, indeed, have lots of escalators in those department stores--oh to be a professional litigant in Japan should this thing get out of the lab!

(Before anyone says Japanese courts aren't as ridiculous as our own, keep in mind that a woman got off for sexual harassment/stalking because she 'proved' that her breasts were too big to squeeze through the opening she's alledged to have used--cause, ya know, breasts--even the aftermarket variety--are known for their rock-like, sharp-edged, firmness.)

Posted by: ECM at January 24, 2009 05:56 PM (q3V+C)

3 Spider-bot, Spider-bot
Does whatever a Spider-bot does. . .

Posted by: MCPO Airdale at January 24, 2009 08:42 PM (PFWVs)

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