While this is a cool idea in general....

[Q Classic]

Originally posted by Eli
That guy in the photo doesn't look like a guy at all. More like a big doll.

...a RealDoll? (salon.com)

[Zkribbler]

In the alternative, they could make robotic soldiers.

[Footie Mad]

Seriously though, if someone has been shot in the stomach for example. How comfortable/healthy will it be to be held in that position, why not have it use a platform instead of cute arms and a freaky face, also it can shoot a needle of morphine from its mouth.

[Zkribbler]

Once the doctorbot picks someone up, it looks like it would be very top heavy. An up-or-downhill grade should send it tumbling.

[ZEE]

i believe that this is the stupidest idea i have heard of in a long time
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[Patroklos]

And how the hell is anyone supposed to earn MoHs or VCs if they can't run out into enemy fire to save comrades?

Robot glory hogs

[Bkeela]

Originally posted by Patroklos
If I am wounded in a place so hairy that they have to send a robot to get me, the thing better look like the damn Terminator with .50 cals.

Or at least let it wrap me in an armored shield so I am not quite so much sniper fodder as it lifts me six feet into the air and moves me through no mans land at 3mph.

[Ninot]

Maybe we aren't looking at the big picture. Someone will eventually build robot warriors that these robot medics will attend to. And then the robot armies will turn on humans!

[Straybow]

The trackbase isn't wide enough to carry over rough terrain. If it were on a slope side-to-side it would tip over.

I'd rather have an ATV with a stretcher in it with a robotic driver.

[Elok]

I think the money would be better spent on an insurgent-flusher-outer 'bot. Shape it like a pig on wheels, fill it up with pig blood donated by patriotic villagers, and let 'er rip. Next time the jihadis take Fallujah or wherever, Porkybot fires up its jets and charges into the stronghold. Once it gets past the gates, it starts indiscriminately spritzing the surrounding area while playing a recording that says: "A gift from the infidels! No paradise for you! A gift from the infidels! No paradise for you!" over and over, in Arabic.

[Kuciwalker]

[Krill]

[BeBMan]