{"id":341182,"date":"2010-02-19T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5475726"},"modified":"2010-02-19T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T19:40:00","slug":"the-navys-fleet-of-uber-classified-super-ultra-high-tech-ship-cleaning-robots-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/341182","title":{"rendered":"The Navy&#8217;s Fleet of Uber Classified Super Ultra High Tech Ship Cleaning Robots [Military]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/ships-robots.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/500x_ships-robots.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>The robots that scrub the decks on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USS_Freedom_%28LCS-1%29\">USS Freedom<\/a>? They&#8217;re just simple <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/roomba\/\">Roombas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The three bots go by the names Scooba Stevens, Chief Miles O&#8217;Brien, and ITSN Unger, referencing Big Daddy, Star Trek and The Odd Couple, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Very cute, but little do we know, DARPA charges us like $250,000 after slapping on a US flag sticker. [<a href=\"http:\/\/militarytimes.com\/blogs\/scoopdeck\/2010\/02\/16\/freedoms-other-unmanned-systems\/\">MilitaryTimes<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.botjunkie.com\/2010\/02\/19\/navy-gives-up-swabbing-decks-uses-roombas-instead\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Botjunkie+%28BotJunkie%29\">BotJunkie<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=59c85014fd0875c8251dc85d9edaf75e&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=59c85014fd0875c8251dc85d9edaf75e&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=Mf7Mn2Y_Fe0:DA1vB6fF4AI:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=Mf7Mn2Y_Fe0:DA1vB6fF4AI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=Mf7Mn2Y_Fe0:DA1vB6fF4AI:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=Mf7Mn2Y_Fe0:DA1vB6fF4AI:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=Mf7Mn2Y_Fe0:DA1vB6fF4AI:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=Mf7Mn2Y_Fe0:DA1vB6fF4AI:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/Mf7Mn2Y_Fe0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The robots that scrub the decks on the USS Freedom? They&#8217;re just simple Roombas. The three bots go by the names Scooba Stevens, Chief Miles O&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}