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Vecna BEAR's Latest Video Exploits
&hlThe Vecna BEAR (Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot) is now in it's ninth incarnation.
These feats have been seen in fiction, In the Japanese manga film Roujin Z, introduced in 1996, the Ministry of Health orders Takazawa Kijuro, an elderly bed-ridden man seemingly without family, to test a new robot - the Z-0001. A self-contained atomic power reactor gives this unique part bed/part machine robot all the energy it needs. Roujin Z can also climb stairs and carry the sick.
Read more details at Vecna Robotics.
Designed to locate, lift and rescue people in harm's way, the humanoid BEAR can do what humans can't: lift heavy loads and carry them long distances. Whether on a battlefield, in a mine shaft, near a toxic chemical spill, or inside a structurally-compromised building after an earthquake, the BEAR can rescue those in need without risking additional human life.
(Vecna BEAR Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot)
(Roujin-Z hospital bed/robot in profile, carrying patient)
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