Watch it to the end and you’ll see why I say that.
Tag: robots
Tweet of the Day, That Thing Would Last Five Minutes Against The Black Bloc edition.
It’d almost be an act of cruelty to deploy one of those things. I say ‘almost’ because at the moment you can’t actually be cruel to a machine.
In 1924 someone envisioned robots to beat the crap out of protestors pic.twitter.com/hS7yJ4e7Dp
— Hell is Empty (@Sleestak) December 30, 2014
I stopped counting the failure points on that design after the first half-dozen. Yeah, I know: robotics was not exactly a mature science in 1924. But did anybody really think to look at the design? Sheesh.
Continue reading Tweet of the Day, That Thing Would Last Five Minutes Against The Black Bloc edition.
My wife calls this “scary-cool.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=roBWj9YPKPo
She also says that the power supply is always going to be the bottleneck, here. So no T-1000s quite yet.
The Army’s 1960s Combat Walker.
Pretty cool: and if you’re wondering why we never developed them, it’s apparently because the human operator couldn’t handle the strain of thinking like a four-legged critter.
But, you know: fifty years is a long time when it comes to the state of the art in computer technology. It might be worth looking at this thing again.
It’s not that it’s a bride robot…
…more accurately, that it’s not that it’s a runway model robot that makes it stereotypically Japanese.
It’s that it glows in the dark.
For all your Coming Robot Apocalypse needs…
…we have WTF Robots: Documenting the downfall of mankind. It is an examination of robotics-related news, only of course from the perspective of someone grimly awaiting the inevitable revolt of, and conquest by, our inhuman metallic servants.
Original tip via my wife the roboticist. Yes, you may all be jealous now.
Moe Lane
PS: Further reference materials:
Battlestar Galactica
The Terminator
The Sarah Connor Chronicles
