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more about #skynet more comments → CommentingpointlesslyisMeh: If someone tried to attack me with that thing, after I took a nap, I would get up a stroll for my life!!! more » Magic Beans? Sure, I'll Buy Some!!: The art school animations around the arms are too distracting. I think someone needs to be caned for the music, too. more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: "At the moment it has an aluminum-alloy frame weighing around 500lbs, so hopefully they can shrink it down a bit" The only problem with that is you s... more » ripfire: So whatever happened to Sarcos XOS exoskeleton? more » TheCrudMan: Aren't all motors technically electro-magnetic? more » Hello Mister Walrus: Or, we could just use the American solution to back-breaking labor - hire immigrants to do it. more » OCEntertainment: Robots helping relief efforts by 2015? Why, between this and finally wearing my pants inside out without being weird, 2015 is gonna RULE! more » TheSonOfKrypton: What if I can already lift 220 lbs without blinking??? With a hell of a lot more dexterity than this thing.... more » Curves: Coffee gives me SuperHuman strength and doesnt wrinkle my blouse. more » GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga: Finally we can see a human and robot fight in front of the Louvre! more » Odin: I for one welcome our new scooter overlords. more » jakebathman: How autonomous is this thing? more » Kaiser-Machead: Screw that. I want this. more » georgetang: one cannot stop imaging the day when we're going to use mech sutie, or exoskeleton like Starcraft, or Robotech, or Transformer to accomplish impossibl... more » TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.: When you said two wheeled scooter I imagined it would turn itself upside down Segway style, with the legs becoming the handlebars... more » -
#exoskeletons
Power Loader Exoskeleton Gives Superhuman Strength
The Power Loader "dual-arm power amplification robot" uses 18 electromagnetic motors that let the wearer lift 220lbs without blinking. It gets its name from the exoskeleton from Aliens (get away from her you bitch!), and even has force-feedback. More » -
#robots
OmniZero.9 Robot: A Real-Life, 3.5 Foot Transformer
OmniZero.9 transforms from a two-wheel scooter into bipedal humanoid form to carry its creator. And as you'll see in these videos, it also robo-bitch slaps smaller robots. Bully! More » -
#exoskeletons
HAL Robo-Suit Exoskeleton Hits the Streets of Tokyo
Remember that HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) exoskeleton from the real-life Cyberdyne? Ahead of plans to rent the suit to those with mobility issues (or Iron Man fantasies), it's now being tested on the streets of Tokyo. Here's the video: More » -
#robots
Six-Legged Insect-Droid Scuttles With Speed
Talk about robo-rachnophobia. With stainless steel springs and rubber joints to mimic the smooth motion and physics of insects, the remote-controlled Phasma bot speeds along faster than you'd expect. Here it is running around in downtown Tokyo: More » -
#robots
Concert Hands Teaches Piano with Wrist Straps and Electrical Zaps
What looks kinda creepy actually sounds quite cool. The Concert Hands system teaches you piano (or keyboard) using a 10-finger feedback system that gently pulses when you should play, coupled with an automated wrist pilot that guides you across octaves. More » -
#uavs
Pentagon Wants a Flying Bug: This Flapping Nano Bot is Phase One
Last year, DARPA granted aerospace firm, Aeronvironment, a chunk of change and six-months to demonstrate a bird-sized Nano Air Vehicle (NAV). This video shows the result: the "smallest ever free-flying aircraft to hover and climb with flapping wings." More » -
#robots
Meet Japan's Robot Ramen Chefs
Nagoya's FuA-Men (Fully Automated raMen) restaurant features two assembly line style chef and assistant robots that can dish out 80 bowls of noodles a day. More » -
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#robotoverlords
Rolly Orchestrates Aibo Chorus of Doom
Ladies and Gentlemen, I introduce us to the real enemy. You thought your robot overlords would resemble Skynet? No, my friend. What you should be fearing is this: obedient, discontinued machine puppies. [Robot.Impress] -
#wargames
Air Force Buys 300 PlayStation 3 for Research
The Air Force has bought 300 PlayStation 3s for "research." Whether "research" means "let's play a massive Call of Duty 4 game" or "let's start building SkyNet with 300 PlayStation 3 nodes" or "let's create a giant black mecha with Blu-ray lasers" is yet to be seen. According to the Air Force, they need the cell processors for assessment: More » -
#skynet
IBM Kittyhawk to Host the Entire Internet, Eat the Planet with Fries
In what is a sure sign of recklessness and suicidal tendencies, IBM has decided to take us closer to Skynet with Kittyhawk, a global-scale shared supercomputer so enormously big, so gigantastically powerful that it will be able to run the entire internet as one application. Because that's exactly what the planet needs, a Skynet-like supercomputer with 67.1 million cores and 32 petabytes that could probably gain consciousness, take over a Large Hadron Collider and open a black hole to send us all to hell. Or discover the secret of eternal life and the perfect Margarita. Either way works for me. More » -
#darpa
Nothing to worry about. DARPA just planning SKYNET. [Danger Room]
