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There’s a robot snake headed to the battlefield.
No, that isn’t the tag line for some ’70s exploitation flick. The Israeli military is getting ready to deploy a wormlike robotic device that can gather intelligence by recording video and sound across enemy lines, according to The Jerusalem Post (Note: The photo at the above-linked site is really unpleasant and looks like it could be from an exploitation movie.) The robotic scout was developed by scientists who researched the movement of flesh-and-blood snakes.
While it’s not yet the subject of any Hollywood project, Wired.com wanted to get out ahead of the trend and predict the top possible projects coming down the pipeline using this “robotic animal on the battlefield” theme. In no particular order:
Dangit, Daggett: The monkey-filled robot from the original Battlestar Galactica (right) arrives on Earth, armed with a nuclear device targeting Ron Moore for not including the creature in his 21st-century remake.
Really Big Bird: Mutated with gamma rays to the size of a blue whale and covered in yellow armor, Big Bird ravages Sesame Street and heads into lower Manhattan to punish the Cloverfield monster for not believing in Snuffleupagus.
Benji: The Hunter: This time it’s personal for the scruffy terrier as he’s fitted with a cybernetic brain and laser-beam eyes in an effort to shut up that pain in the neck, Dog Whisperer‘s Cesar Millan.
Guarded by Garfield: The cartoon cat joins the Secret Service and is fitted with lasagna-powered rockets and wings on a special detail to protect Air Force One from attacks by an Odie gone mad.
The Flipper Flap: After the superstar cetacean is tricked into taking part in the U.S. Navy’s top-secret Dolphin Torpedo Project by the offer of some tasty fish, scientists spot-weld a thermite bomb to Flipper and send him squeaking and clicking toward the Persian Gulf.
Look for each in theaters in 2010.
Image courtesy Universal
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