Re-enforcing their alignment with our future robot rulers, the Japanese have enlisted a team of 200 robots to hang around, staring ominously at passers-by all while warning and reporting on a huge lifestyle concern for its citizens: pollen.
Taken from Pink Tentacle : “As hay fever season approaches, Tokyo-based weather forecasting company Weathernews, Inc. is deploying a 200-strong army of beady-eyed, ball-shaped robots nationwide to monitor the pollen situation.”
There is something very anime about these little white guys with thier eyes and bodyless heads....
Ok, so - some company in Japan is readying up thier line of robo-helpers meant to walk around assisting people in finding stuff at public events, in cities, etc. Yes. You read correctly. walk around, and interact with humans. AWESOME.
so - when they decide to enforce the 3 prime directives with just a little bit more force, remember that you read it here.
its a crowd monitoring robot. if all goes well, he will remember the location of your car. or, he will decide that humans are no longer needed, terminate most of us and then use the rest of us as a living power source.
egads. awesome.
sweet video of a puppy and a roboquad going at it. whoever put the video together was nice enough to stick a game style scorecard at the top of the screen.
via engadget
This might be one of the scariest things I have ever seen. This old man has been at penn station, track 19s north end, for a few days now. He is a designated entertainer playing polka music. Yes, polka. I think he might be 100 years old, but the guy does it with a boat load of energy. He is using an electronic keyboard piped through (what I believe to be) a fender pignose amp.
What adds to the creepiness factor is the dancing robots. You need to visualize this. Old man, hunched back, loud polka music and dancing robots.
**Please excuse the poor quality of these images. I was shooting with my iphone while trembling in fear.
*** yes, I asked if I could take his picture, and yes, I gave him some money
