21st February 2007, 1:55 PM
Sure they can, but no one is going to miss a robot. Do you get my point? You equip one of those de-bombinb bots with a pain beam and a megaphone and get to work. If it breaks, you get a new one.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)