A Human-Extracting Rescue Robot

By John Farrier in Science & Tech on Aug 11, 2009 at 12:15 pm

nom nom nom

A rescue robot that picks up victims and takes them inside of itself. What could possibly go wrong?

The Robocue is operated by the Tokyo Fire Department and used to extract people from areas where rescue workers can’t go safely. It then uses pincers to pull a person on to a conveyor belt and inside its protective walls. Video at the link.

Tags: Robocue, Robopocalypse, robots, search and rescue, tokyo

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SenorMysterioso
Aug 11th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Finally a mobile soylent green processing unit
MrJawbones
Aug 11th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
OM NOM NOM NOM NOM
Shrapevil
Aug 11th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Wait. Robocue? As in, robot BARBECUE? This does not bode well.
daddymak
Aug 11th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Shrapevil: That’s my thoughts exactly, barbecue.
Kalel
Aug 11th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Damn, but someone beat me to the Soylent Green joke.

See what happens if you don’t check Neatorama often?
Luke McCormick
Aug 11th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Wow – Eerily close to RD4T’s HCR-400. Another example of life imitating blog.

http://rd4t.com/2008/10/homeless-person-collection-robot/
sc0tty
Aug 11th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Paper jam, please reload human extractor and press ok.
Miss Curly
Aug 11th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Just…wrong.
Christophe
Aug 11th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Looks like a giant Roomba
free virtual worlds
Aug 12th, 2009 at 5:58 am
it’s like those UFO-catcher machines they have in japan.
sc0tty
Aug 12th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Robocop went a little too far with a female bobcat, you know, the little forklift machine things. Now they have this cybertronic abomination to take care of.

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