By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews

It’s not as good as the Lost in Space robot and his electric bolts, but it’s something! Taser and iRobot have formed a strategic alliance which will develop robot which are finally armed, for police and military use.

The two companies have already integrated a Taser X26 stun gun–also known as “an electronic control device,” in Taser talk–on to an iRobot PackBot, the mobile military robot created by the company. PackBots have been used to perform reconnaissance in the caves of Afghanistan during combat situations and to investigate potential roadside bombs in Iraq, among other assignments. Source: News.com

We Say: So, since police generally warn suspects before firing on them, will this robot say “Warning, Warning!” before it let’s loose with a Taser blast? (If you havent seen Lost in Space the TV show, you will have NO idea what I’m talking about).