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Walking up and down the beaches with a metal detector can net you some cool loot, but it’s also extremely tedious – the perfect job for a robot!
Meet Looty, the loot findin’ robot:
4 feet long and wide and 2 feet tall.
Two rubber tank tracks powered by electric motors.
At the front is an array
of top-of-the-line metal detectors linked to a computer.
When the robot drives over something interesting, it stops, digs up all of the sand 2 feet below it and runs it through a strainer. It then takes whatever is left and deposits it into a locked hopper.
The top is covered in solar panels to extend the batteries onboard.
Water proofing and object (read people) avoidance are key in a beach environment.
Add a GPS receiver to it and you can program it to drive down the beach 1000 yards and drive back to where you’re leisurely soaking up rays and sipping a Corona.
Not a robot, but covers 27,000 square Metres per hour
http://www.angus.co...goode/goo300hd.html
[Klaatu, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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You may want to include beach towel avoidance. Or not. |
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Not a Speedo. An eye patch and a parrot. |
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A Speedo? Is that like a pant? |
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(Imagining Lost in Space's Robbie The Robot walking along a beach in pair of speedos)
Sexy. |
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DANGER MRS. ROBBINSON. DANGER |
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psst, [Blissmiss] - I think [simonj] was questioning your use of the singular 'speedo'. |
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I think [blissmiss] is right... I think it should be singular... and usually avoided. |
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I would add something to avoid picking up clams (unless you
want clams). |
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