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    RiSE Robot Climbs Poles Like Some Sort of Ferocious Animal

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    Image of Curves Curves
    05/14/09

    In reply to RiSE Robot Climbs Poles Like Some Sort of Ferocious Animal
    Its obviously not going to replace the lady pole climbers at the strip club, but pretty cool none the less.
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    05/14/09

    @Curves: It could if they named it, as others suggested in comments above, "Big Beaver".
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    05/14/09

    In reply to RiSE Robot Climbs Poles Like Some Sort of Ferocious Animal
    Yeaaaa....................So let's just ignore the guy using the pulley to pull it up mmmmmmmmkkkkkkkkkkkkkk everyone? Thaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkssss...
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    05/14/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: Yeah, and I bet on those rock climb walls, the people aren't really climbing, it's the employees with the safety rope pulling them up, right?


    Also, how does it fall if he's pulling it?

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    Image of aboriginal aboriginal
    05/14/09

    In reply to RiSE Robot Climbs Poles Like Some Sort of Ferocious Animal
    Lame. Watch how they climb coconut trees in Hawaii and mimic that.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/14/09

    @aboriginal: The point of this robot is actually to develop the climbing claws, not the leg movements. It can climb any suitably rough surface. This video just happens to have a pole.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/14/09

    In reply to RiSE Robot Climbs Poles Like Some Sort of Ferocious Animal
    it's mission: to plant a flag at the top of every tree declaring it the property of green peace.


    but honestly it just reminds me of Salute Your Shorts

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    05/14/09

    @Texas, Texas yee haw_Nick: Donkey Lips? Ug? Wormer? Dina? Camp Anawana?
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    05/14/09

    In reply to RiSE Robot Climbs Poles Like Some Sort of Ferocious Animal
    I wonder how this will deal with all the ads on the poles around me like "Make your own Sign" or "Single? Visit TownNameSingles.com".


    Also, contrary to popular beleif/stereotypes, most Polish people wouldn't stand for a robot climbing up them.

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    05/14/09

    In reply to RiSE Robot Climbs Poles Like Some Sort of Ferocious Animal
    Meh.



    Tom Selleck can still kick its ass.

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    Image of incubushead incubushead
    05/14/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Yeah wait til they start putting hypodermic needles on the ends of these things with poison in them. Then we'll see how many people get killed while sitting on the toilet.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    05/14/09

    @incubushead: ACID. It was acid. It burned Tom's face at the end.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/14/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Too bad Gene Simmons can't.


    Photobucket

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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/14/09

    In reply to RiSE Robot Climbs Poles Like Some Sort of Ferocious Animal
    shoulda called it Cat. Big Dog and Cat!
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    Image of Paul Werner Paul Werner
    05/14/09

    @frigg: more like a beaver with that tail
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/14/09

    @Paul Werner: The tail is actually really important. It prevents the robot from peeling backwards off of the surface.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/14/09

    @Paul Werner: Big Dog and Big Beaver... o_O
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/14/09

    In reply to RiSE Robot Climbs Poles Like Some Sort of Ferocious Animal
    HAHA! I worked in a lab in college that used that robot!!
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    05/14/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: It's actually really fast now compared to before.
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    Image of dimsum4u dimsum4u
    05/14/09

    In reply to RiSE Robot Climbs Poles Like Some Sort of Ferocious Animal
    i dunno if i would call that ease or ferocious. I was expecting like some crazy speed climb and then it looks back at you and roars and then rips off the operators head.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    05/14/09

    @dimsum4u: It's all fun and games until that thing jumps on your face.
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    05/14/09

    In reply to RiSE Robot Climbs Poles Like Some Sort of Ferocious Animal
    "The Big Dog chases you down "


    I can't help but imagine two guys in a body suit with a box trying to chase me.

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    Image of ⌘Z ⌘Z
    04/21/09

    In reply to SquishBot Can Shrink Itself Down to Infiltrate Your Home, Nightmares
    "...soft, shape-changing robot. The goal is to design systems that can transform themselves..."


    uhh, t-1000, anybody?


    has james cameron not taught us a thing??


    this is a gray area that is not to be meddled in.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    04/21/09

    @worst. giz commenter. ever.: But the T-1000 was not soft. It was hard, could only form an object of equal size, and form solid metal shapes like knives and stabbing weapons.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/21/09

    @AutoTuneShouldBeACrime_GitEmSteveDave: Not to mention perfectly mimic a vinyl tile floor.
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    Image of Rick Hanton Rick Hanton
    04/21/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Or a urinal in Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles. (Early episodes: boss/T-1000 turns into toilet, listens to subordinate talking smack about her in the bathroom, then after everyone leaves, morphs out of the urinal he's peeing in and stabs him.)
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    04/21/09

    @Rick Hanton: To quote Ted Stryker, "What a pisser".
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    04/21/09

    In reply to SquishBot Can Shrink Itself Down to Infiltrate Your Home, Nightmares
    Wasn't this in an episode of Star Trek:TNG? Of course, to me, it looks more like a Space Herpe.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/21/09

    @AutoTuneShouldBeACrime_GitEmSteveDave: Only Star Trek animal I can think of is the Ceti eel that Khan put in Terrell and Chekov's helmets to burrow into their brains.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    04/21/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: There was the worm thing that infested the upper levels of Star Fleet and involved someone named Remmeck.


    @Barry99705: I know. Great film.

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    04/21/09

    In reply to SquishBot Can Shrink Itself Down to Infiltrate Your Home, Nightmares
    Clearly, Adam is still hallucinating about worms after 420.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/21/09

    In reply to SquishBot Can Shrink Itself Down to Infiltrate Your Home, Nightmares
    Robocephalopodsd are not welcome here!
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    Image of SirNotAppearing SirNotAppearing
    04/21/09

    In reply to SquishBot Can Shrink Itself Down to Infiltrate Your Home, Nightmares
    No one has welcomed our new squishy robotic overlords yet? Where are your manners?
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