How long before this technology is applied to "Leisure Suit Larry"? Not long.
This is the most useful application of a Roomba since I programed one to clean the scraps of mutton out of my mustache as I slept. It doesn't wake me, as I've eaten so much mutton that my slumber is deep and true. Don't forget the matted sheep fat in my chest hair, Roomba! It's kind of like having a robot chimp to groom the nits out of your fur...
Anyway, a group of engineers at the University of Colorado took their very sophisticated Unmanned Aerial System program, designed for remote guidance of airborne vehicles, and used it to make Roomba Pac-Man.
This is the same sort of technology that's manning our aerial drones and blowing up large swaths of the Afghanistan/Pakistan border, dedicated to recreating an '80s arcade classic. In other words, watch out al-Qaeda...we will deploy an army of Dig Dug programed vacuums to suck you out of your caves!
You're knob kneed panty wetter by comparison, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2!
Enjoy Roomba Pac-Man and mark the day when robot vacuums gained sentience, thus beginning our inexorable slide to a "Matrix" or "Terminator" style dystopia of human enslavement and spotless carpets. (Via Joystiq)
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