These robots would be about the size of a mouse. A series of rotary cutting disks would be placed at the front, with radar used to sense material. The front would have ball-shaped wheels, and there would be a tail connected to the computer and power source.

The radar would detect nearby wood, and the robots would turn on their cutters and move in the direction of the wood.

A powerful fan would be pointed at the stump to blow away sawdust.
-- Voice, May 05 2019

// The radar would detect nearby wood, //

That's a clever trick, how's it done ?
-- 8th of 7, May 05 2019


it's dine on wood init?
-- pocmloc, May 05 2019


Bah. Sp. fixed.

Also, does the "tail" contain the pipe through which the ANFO is pumped into the hole in the stump ?
-- 8th of 7, May 05 2019


Radar: "Two small tree trunks, bearing 283 degrees, range 1137mm."
{short delay}
Bystander: "AAAAAAARGH"
-- pertinax, May 05 2019


//"AAAAAAARGH"//

How about GM & selectively bred giant termites instead? can't see anything going wrong there..

<thinks>

"Hmm.. there must be a disaster movie script in that somewhere"

</thinks>
-- Skewed, May 05 2019


No, because the termites have eaten the cellulose.

// [thinks] //

Gr. "<thinks>, </thinks>"
-- 8th of 7, May 05 2019


//selectively bred giant termites//

Cue predation by selectively bred giant numbats*, pursued in their turn by selectively bred giant quolls**.

*striped like a humbug, but no bah

**marsupial cats with polka-dots
-- pertinax, May 09 2019



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