Silicon Valley startup Robotex, which has won the endorsement of Pentagon mercenary suppplier Blackwater, already manufacturers robots with guns. How long until they or anybody else building an army gets their hands on the creepy robocritter featured in the clip embedded below? Watch as a modular robot made by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania reassembles itself when kicked apart.
Scientists create self-regenerating robot that's obviously going to kill us all
9:20 AM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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Oh ... My .. God ...
Someone please teach me how to build EMP grenades...
I don't know which is going to take us out first, the Zombie Apocalypse or the Rise of the Machines...
I'd rather have the zombies. I know how to swing a crowbar...
If we're nice to them, will they take that into account when they take over?
I for one, welcome our new self-repairing robot overlords.
OJG, it reassembles itself just like that liquid metal terminator in T2.. only not quite as f....a......s.....t......
@joemono:
The highest compliment they can pay is to duplicate you in android-form and kill the original. Silicon-based bastards...
I just hope that Lightsaber technology is progressing as well.
@russdanger: Assuming my memories are still intact, that'd be okay with me.
@russdanger: You know, the real trick is for humanity to time the inevitable rise of the machines to happen along side the zombie apocalypse. Let them fight each other.
@russdanger: Dude I keep telling you This is how to build an EMP bomb.
@sonofapitch: I can't wait to read the designer's obituary!
I can't see the video, anyone have a link?
You could grow a human faster than it takes this thing to reassemble itself...
@Castle1914:
All-rightie then!, bring on those metal bastards!
Bonus: It looks like it would splatter a zombie too. Dual-purpose, I like that. Takes up less room in the bunker...
I would still rather take 'em out with a light-saber, though..*sigh*
@joemono: Memories: Heavily edited
Consciousness: Nope, yer screwed. The "you" that you now experience will cease to exist, but the android will be utterly convinced he's you. But It'll be wrong.
Moral of the story: Never trust a 'Bot.
Helpful tip:
Use sarcasm when attempting to distinguish between humans and android imposters. Androids don't "get" sarcasm. Idiots don't either, but it's no great loss if you accidently hit one with the EMP grenade (see above).
@Jeff the Great:
+ Watch video
Another helpful tip:
If it can't see you, it probably can't decapitate you with it's rotary-slicing hand thingie:
Video Jamming:
[www.spymodex.com]
@russdanger: Beer, pot, and father time have already helped me edit my memories. And if the Robo-Joe was completely convinced he was Joe, then I wouldn't care, since I wouldn't know the difference. Ignorance is bliss.
I'm not afraid of this robot. If attacked, all you have to do is kick it, then you could leisurely stroll away/escape. Repeat as necessary.
you can always keep a piece hidden somewhere and let the robot search for it for the rest of eternity
Incidently, when the frik are Asimov's THREE LAWS going to be programmed into these bastards? I guess we *are* going to wait until there's a 'Bot rebellion and thousand of human corpses littering the streets...
Nobody has more money to spend on robotics than the Pentagon, and you KNOW they ain't big on the Laws...
@joemono: Have you taken a Voight-Kampff test lately?,
Maybe you're already a replicant...
Well, I for one hope that those robots have backup robots to lay down suppressing fire on us as their kicked-to-pieces buddies slo-o-o-o-wly reassemble themselves.
I mean, because if the robots are THAT determined, I commend them.
Y'know, even as I kick them into clunky, frustrated pieces again...
@notyoutool: I agree and at the same time think they can't be any worse than our current human overlords.
Hopefully when the robot army comes, the regeneration time will be faster. I could have already smash that thing to little bits with all the time it took to combine back together.
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