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‘flesh-eating robot’

Watch Your Appendages. Robots Will Digest and Poo You

18 Aug, 2010 by Josh Mings in TECH
3D Human CAD Models

It just makes sense. Robots attack humans. Robots ingest humans. Robot digest humans. Robots excrete oily human remains.

Chewin’ and pooin’ is what Ecobot III is all about. However, it doesn’t actually chew. It’s equipped with “digestive tract” in which Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC) containing biomass hungry bacteria converts the material to hydrogen. Once the microbes have done they’re part, the waste is sent down the chute. Ingenious really. On top of that, the robot was created using rapid prototyping.

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Tiny Sumobot Distracts/Attacks With Blood Squirting Light Effect {3D VR}

09 Dec, 2009 by Josh Mings in TECH

I’m telling you, there’s no end to the carnage… or virtual carnage… or inane thoughts I get when I see pretty lights shooting out of a robot. But that just goes to show how naivety will bleed us dry in a fit of flashy brilliance.

What is this I speak of? An experiment from Chris Rojas that fits a tiny Sumobot with an IR tracking systems for an interesting take on how we could interface with robots or our environment, or heck, with each other. Initiate fear recognition…

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Cyborg Insect Initiate. Stimulate Left Beetle Muscle. ATTACK. {Video}

28 Sep, 2009 by Josh Mings in TECH

Aaaccck! Yeah, forget the fact that the bug you just swallowed was, oh, say the size of your palm. It also happens to have the newest in remote radio control gadgetry, and probably the diseases of a hundred generations, strapped to it’s muscly exoskeleton.

As if we didn’t have enough to make us cringe with super agile robots and flesh-eating mechs, you can now rest less easy at night as you tumble into dreamland with the fear that cyborg insects can be controlled to fly left… AND RIGHT. Pleasant dreams. I’d keep the lights off.

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Skinless, One-Eyed Robots More Likely to Fool/Consume Skinless, One-Eyed People

31 Aug, 2009 by Josh Mings in TECH

Cruuuunch. Remember the sound, because it’s likely to be the last thing you hear as you see the contents of your body somehow digested through the visible Endoskeleton support structure of the latest in robo-gadgetry, the Eccerobot.

If the name isn’t enough to make you contemplate full, electro-conductive body armor options, the clunky movement of the Eccerobot may be. Held together by kiteline and bungee cord tendons, the thermoplastic polymorph bone material aims to give a more complimentary humanoid appearance. Video following.

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Faster Death for Fleshy Humans. Robot Hands Get High Speed Actuators

26 Aug, 2009 by Josh Mings in NEWS

You know that point where robots become more agile than humans and then dead, lifeless bodies scatter the streets of the cities. Yeah, that is approaching, and you’ll love to see what’s putting it all in motion.

Ishikawa Komuro Lab has been busy over the past 10 or so years developing technology in high-speed visual information processing, optical information manipulations and, of greatest interest, adaptive multi-sensor architecture. What is that, you ask? Take a look at the video and be scared, be very a… scared.

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Robots Will Have Scale-Covered Skin, Ride Crotch Rockets, Impend Doom

20 Jul, 2009 by Josh Mings in NEWS

There’s just no shortage of pre-apocalyptic robot news these days. We’ve learned the ways in which robots could potentially feed themselves.

If that’s possible, why shouldn’t they be equipped with a ‘self-learning mode’ for flawless pursuit upon a rippin’ rice burner? And if not that, then why shouldn’t they use frictional lifting patterns being studied in snakes to propel themselves quickly toward your main artery? I’m thinking tire armor, a grappling device and liquid nitrogen. Here’s the bleak outlook my friends.
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I Don’t Care, I’m Keeping My Distance From Robots Powered By the DEAD.

15 Jul, 2009 by Josh Mings in TECH

Ok, it’s just too much to take. As if robots partaking of live flesh wasn’t bad enough, now we have robots with the autonomous foresight to continue their steam-powered existence by means of consuming the DEAD.

Robotic Technologies Inc. is sending us out with the creation of a proper robot predator – the EATR. That doesn’t sound the least bit threatening now does it? You have some time to prepare yourself for what is to come though. This project is currently in the development phase, not the eating phase.

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Flesh-Eating Robots. That’s Not Scary At All.

30 Jun, 2009 by Josh Mings in TECH

I’m not saying that one day robots will eat and digest you for energy, but I am saying. Especially given the state of two minds that are creating carnivorous robots that run on the juices extracted from various pests and their materials.

This one grabs flies, mice or other small creatures, scrapes them into a microbial fuel cell vat of bacteria that breaks down the biological material into pure robot-loving energy. No word on if the vat removes the fibrous material or if it’s dishwasher safe.

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