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

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.

sentinals... I mean sentries in production

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.