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Originally Posted by Michele
Land mines. . . but there are ways to fool those too. And so on.
. . . A damaged, but not destroyed, robot is a good plot device, too.
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You can also exploit the robots' wonderful senses.
Bury the lid of a paint can (or similar object) flat & level, a few inches deep. To the robot's ground-penetrating radar and thermal sensors it will appear to be a land mine.
You can use this to impede or channel robot movements.
Or (an old Wehrmacht trick) put wheel or tread marks over a buried mine. Even if the robot detects this mine he may conclude "Aha! the old paint can lid in the dirt trick" since the previous vehicle over the object caused no detonation. Logically, it will then proceed apace to a loud boom.
While robots will not actually shut down due to the old Star Trek "we'll dazzle them with illogic" it may confuse them and cause them to hesitate. Get an advantage or buy some time.