The robots are coming!

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2003-12-22 04:07am

Witness the new Robot Army...

http://www.ai.sri.com/centibots/

Thoughts?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-12-22 04:12am

AIIIEEEE Skynet's coming!!!!

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2003-12-22 07:40am

It sounds like they're nothing more than mobile security cameras, and their application shouldn't prove too glorified than that. I wouldn't worry too much - until they start using plasma rifles and mass-producing 'infiltrator' units the human race will remain comfortably their masters.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-12-22 09:12am

They look like mini zambonis

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-12-22 09:26am

Until they mount miniguns on the things, i'm not interested.

Robert Walper · Post by **Robert Walper** » 2003-12-22 11:27am

Until they look like this:

...my interest is only minor amusement.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2003-12-22 11:32am

I like how the terminator models always look like they're grinning as they're gunning down hapless human rebels.

Robert Walper · Post by **Robert Walper** » 2003-12-22 11:45am

Stofsk wrote:I like how the terminator models always look like they're grinning as they're gunning down hapless human rebels.

One of the things I think makes the T-800 model so damn cool looking is the fact it's so scary visually. And frankly, Skynet didn't design the T-800 to look so, but instead for practical purposes(ie: synthetic flesh covering the metal skeleton). Thus, we have the combination of a machine that looks geniunely frightening, but you know that the machines that build it didn't give a fuck whether you're scared of it or not. It's just going to kill you, whether you shit your pants or not.