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You mean Rat Things, right?

http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Rat_Things_(Snow_Crash)

Amazing, how the subconscious works. Of course, I re-read that not long ago!

So much for Asimov's laws, eh? Autonomous weapons have had some problems [1] however. You need to be sure that no friendly fire is possible, and that's a tall order. I'd prefer Robo-sheepdog, myself.

1: http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/9-killed-in-army-horr...

> We could have right now a RoboDog, with some machine guns on it and let them patrol and secure a perimeter. Fire at anything it moves.

Its sad that this is thought of as the innovative use of RoboDog.

Back on its feet within 10 seconds -- looks like the banana peel issue is solved.