One Step Closer to Robot Armageddon

Posted on 01/30/2009 at 2:42 pm by JumpyPants

Modular robots that reassemble themselves after being shattered into pieces. Yeah, it’s only a matter of time before they kill us all. Who wants robot insurance?

h/t Mark Frauenfelder

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  • Alan4s

    That is so cool. Did you see that one module, after the guy came in and kicked it again the second time. I swear it was trying to turn that flashing light into a death ray to vaporize the bastard!

  • Packy

    OK, I’m officially scared!Won’t these Scientist Bastards™ ever learn?

  • John

    Hmm…carbon copy robots that, after being obliterated and shattered into pieces, decide to reassemble themselves into the exact same thing.Sounds like a Republican.

  • MatthewN
  • Mike H.

    This was discussed last night on the daily show with the author of “Wired for War” Jon described the book as “a meal.”

  • Curly Lasagna

    Tell me the patent holder is Skynet.

  • http://nanotyrnns.blogspot.com/ Nanotyrannus

    Holy. Living. Fuck.

  • brent

    You still don’t get it, do you? He’ll find her! That’s what he does! It’s *all* he does! You can’t stop him! He’ll wait for you! He’ll reach down her throat and tear her fuckin’ heart out!– Kyle Reese, The Terminator

  • Packy

    “Come with me if you want to live.”

  • ragemage

    Go to this site and watch the video. It is only a matter of time until we bow before our robotic overlords…http://www.bostondynamics.com/content/sec.php?section=BigDogSeriously robotics are coming along nicely. The scientists just have to remember the three laws…

  • Chris

    Whatever. I’d be in the next county by the time that freakin robot got its shit together.