RobotOutbreak

elmo comes to life, swallows souls.

This is the scariest thing I have ever seen.  ever.  thankfully, he isnt in production yet, and the one that they have pictured here is tethered, so - we are safe for now.  Its elmo.  He sings, dances, tells stories, does jazz hands, and has a fully detatchable jaw (featured in the picture here) for swalling you whole.  I dont know.  something about this mouth open wide, arms hanging down pose is scary to me.

Ok, to "its" credit, his motion is great.  he does move really well.  yes, better than pleo.  ok, there, I said it.  pleo is slow.  its not dumb.  I mean, well, maybe pleo is, but - he is at LEAST as smart as the real baby camarasaurus, right?  See video at gizmodo. next, "run from me chucky"....

Quando il diavolo to accarezza, vuole l'anima. -my gramma

why won't it clean winsheilds?!

Some group of Dutch inventors created a but which could one day put hundreds of angry and cold gas station workers out of jobs.  The fuel dishing robot works by visually identifying a car, pulling information from a database, and figuring out just where to inject its 3.89 per gallon love.

Supposedly, this robot is going to be made available for the not insane price of $111k.  I would love to see this in action.  just think about the insane lines at interstate and city gas stations.

Needed modifications:  paypass / cc scanner and a squeegee. 

Awesome, although, not quite as helpful as robocop at a gas station during a holdup.

overlordling controlled with a nintendo ds

  French engineering students have ensleved a pekee robot, and now command it with thier nintendo ds.  with just a tap on the directional pad, or a stroke of thier stylus, or even a word wispered into the microphone, the students can command it ask it to do stuff. 

I totally share in dsfanboy.com's concerns that this will just quicken our impending robot to human enslavement.

see the original post for a video of the pekee robot being controlled by the french.