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Post Re: I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords!
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Tiny robot mixed martial artists.

You don't want to be caught in that suplex.

http://www.wimp.com/japaneserobots/


That robot has sick takedowns, it's like a mini George St. Pierre
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Post Re: I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords!
Yeah, amazing double leg, and a 5 point overhead throw. That's very cool, I want an army of them to rid my yard of chipmunks.
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Post Re: I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords!
HAH!

visions of robots wrestling with chipmonks dance through my head!


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Post Re: I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords!
Most useful robot... ever?

http://www.wimp.com/ketchupbot/


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Post Re: I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords!
This can only mean one thing.


Robot Death matches.

or sex... Probably sex.

http://www.wimp.com/robotkinect/


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Post Re: I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords!
http://io9.com/#!cultmovieworship/5783831

Awesome.

The Blinky short film has arrived.

haha. .. so good.


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Post Re: I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords!
In the future our kill-bots will be modular.

Oh, it starts off innocently enough. Sense some distance, measure a dial...

http://www.dump.com/2011/07/02/cubelets ... ype-video/


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Post Re: I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords!
I want those!!!


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Post Re: I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords!
http://io9.com/5820624/computer-teaches ... vilization

"Hey! That's a neat tri... OH GOD THE SINGULARITY IS UPON US!"


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http://www.wimp.com/robotbird/

what kind of bird is that?

*dive bomb*


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Post Re: I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords!
The mod bots and the bird are great. What's better is that the progress is all cumulative. Once it's built, we have the knowledge. It's all uphill from here, faster and faster. With rapid trial and error in tech labs, we're reproducing the evolutionary algorithm on an accelerated scale. After a successful technology such as the albatross, the technologies will split; small birds will be developed and larger birds(planes) will be developed. Riding on such a plane would make me vomit.
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Post Re: I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords!
http://io9.com/5849351/new-invention-br ... g-grey-goo

I'll have to insert my hyperbolic knee-jerk screed later.

Maybe this will suffice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo


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Watch this headless robotic monster outrun your sanity. Pure nightmare fuel.

http://www.wimp.com/robotgalloping/


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Post Re: I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords!
Japan, this isn't helping anything.

http://io9.com/5601761/meet-the-telenoi ... our-dreams

I don't think that the INTENDED to terrify a generation with this abomination of plastic and gears, but what inventors in Japan have done is conjured the unformed demons of fetal doom and invested them into this amorphous horror, ostensibly to make people feel comfortable.

Well that didn't work.

Because watching this be-faced maggot croon the lovely words of your remote-communicating wife mocks the very notion of comfort, and trods happiness under it's mal-formed hip lumps.


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