Deadly Robot News

A grandfather who wanted to end his life built himself a gun-toting robot with plans downloaded from the Internet and used it to kill himself.

The bizarre suicide machine was set up to remotely fire a .22 semi- automatic pistol - and when the 81-year-old man activated it he was hit several times in the head.

Police refused to name the man, who lived on Queensland's Gold Coast, but last night confirmed the death and that an 'unusual device' had been used.

It is believed that based on internet plans he devised a method of setting up the gun on a platform and then used a remote control which activated the trigger on the gun.

He had positioned himself in front of the weapon in his driveway so that when it fired he knew he would be struck in the head.

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