The Navy's Fleet of Uber Classified Super Ultra High Tech Ship Cleaning Robots [Military]

Published Feb. 19, 2010 at 7:40 p.m.
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The robots that scrub the decks on the USS Freedom? They're just simple Roombas.

The three bots go by the names Scooba Stevens, Chief Miles O'Brien, and ITSN Unger, referencing Big Daddy, Star Trek and The Odd Couple, respectively.

Very cute, but little do we know, DARPA charges us like $250,000 after slapping on a US flag sticker. [MilitaryTimes via BotJunkie]

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