Fourteen hands at the shoulder, it cuts a majestic figure. Tailored gloss-paper sleeves protect its legs* from snagging on undergrowth, but it's upper body is skinned only with dark foil, which glistens as it turns** its head in the breeze.
Stealth gets the huntress within bowshot, but a noise*** at the wrong moment sets her quarry bounding away. The arrow grazes it, and when she runs up, she finds nothing but telltale flakes on the ground; smells like 65% cocoa solids.
But it's tiring. It can't have got far. In fact ... the only place it could be hiding is in ... that thicket. She sets aside her bow and brings out a knobkerry. Nerves jangling, she closes in.
It springs. She strikes. Something shatters - something moulded from a quarter- inch thickness of dark chocolate - and it's all over. The legs flail, twitch and are still.
The solid chocolate parts are articulated a bit like plate armour. The electromechanical parts are sealed inside a washable cover, for ease of re-use. Some of the ganache entrails inevitably go to waste, but no- one said this was an *efficient* way to eat chocolate.
And that, my friends, is a *real* chocolate hunt.
NB, This product is not suitable for warm climates. Also, do not hunt Choculax venabilis with dogs, unless you want them to die by caffeine heart attack.
*A light metal endoskeleton supports its weight.
**Servo motors, internally mounted battery pack.
***To make it sporting, the huntress carries with her a transponder and microphone, so that her location is always, in fact, known to her quarry's on- board computer, but its software will only activate "fight or flight" behaviour when she makes a sound within a certain distance of it, adjusted for wind direction.-- pertinax, Oct 24 2021 Bit more bunny like https://www.festo.c...onicKangaroo_en.pdfone of them is carrying a single jelly bean. [wjt, Oct 24 2021] Not to be a "Debbie Downer" here, but it sounds a wee bit complicated...hence a huge bun from me. Ha-- blissmiss, Oct 24 2021 so like a chocolate * Predator * ?
+++-- xandram, Oct 24 2021 If we estimate the weight of chocolate based on the payload of the Boston Dynamics dog, that's more than 12kg of dark chocolate, [a1]. That'll kill several mastiffs, if I'm reading the tables right.
Maybe a separate version could be made, out of one of those dog- friendly chocolate substitutes. That's if you don't mind them pooping foil for a week afterwards. Or we could omit the foil on the basis that, in this use case, we're not bothering to keep the "chocolate" clean.-- pertinax, Oct 24 2021 I think that's a given; does anyone here *not* need a robotic hunting dog?-- pertinax, Oct 25 2021 If possible I would prefer a robotic hunting falcon. To scale of course.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Oct 25 2021 Don't eat them past the expiration date. The batteries may leak.-- RayfordSteele, Oct 25 2021 When I'm rich so help me I will make one of these.-- Voice, Oct 26 2021 random, halfbakery