Apr 29 2008Uh-Oh: Reassembling Robots Are Hard To Kill
Well, we've seen a reassembling robot before, but that one was a chair, and, honestly, it's hard to get too frightened about a chair unless it's being swung at you by an unruly biker at the bar because you hit on his sister. Well these little reassembling robots are both scary and creepy (skip to around 1:26 for the good stuff). You kick them apart, and they find all the other pieces and self-assemble. Just think of the possibilities.
How would you like to have your very own shape-shifter? Perhaps a liquid metal T-1000 Terminator to help around the house. Or a universal tool kit that could reshape itself into any implement at the press of a button.
Okay, any mention of robots that includes a reference to "shape-shifters" and the Terminator is bound to scare the shit out of me. Needless to say I'm writing this from under my parents' bed. Speaking of which, there's an awful lot of damn squeaking going on up there. Oh no. Oh God, no.
Shape-shifting robots take form [newscientist]
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Youtube
Thanks to Karina, who battles robots of all colors except for pink -- those she leaves to Yoshimi, for the tip
Reader Comments
1. Amy - April 29, 2008 4:32 PM
haha, I like how it falls over at the end.
2. jeff - April 29, 2008 4:58 PM
top shelf post - kudos mr. geekologie writer!
3. groonk - April 29, 2008 5:12 PM
replicators are coming!*
(google 'stargate: sg1' if you're nasty)
4. Sophie - April 29, 2008 5:41 PM
I'm gonna listen to this guy tonight so I can fall asleep. His voice is so soothing...
5. Dan - April 29, 2008 6:34 PM
Hard to kill? Throw those little math cube bastards in a river.
6. Peanut Colada - April 29, 2008 7:10 PM
Reminds me of Cubix.
Cubix kicked ass.
Unlike this guy.
He's like Cubix's retard cousin.
7. SmokingGirl - April 29, 2008 7:20 PM
*groans* Not replicators...no, no...where is Richard Dean Anderson when you need him? Anything but replicators!
P.S. Apparently knowing what replicators are in reference to Stargate:the series makes me nasty. So, I'm nasty.
P.P.S. I took a shower; so I'm not nasty anymore. Plus I smell like cherry blossom and sandlewood. Weeeeeeeeeeeee.
8. Leg3nd - April 30, 2008 12:49 AM
Me: Remember the computer in the 50s...
Grandpa: Indeed i do.
Me: Now its used for porn.....
-2058-
Grandson: Remember those reassembling robots from 2008?
Me: Sure do. thought those little buggers would take over the world.
Grandson: Now they are used for porn.
9. Super Duper! - April 30, 2008 12:50 AM
can they replicate a good man for me?
10. Daniel - April 30, 2008 3:01 AM
Well perhaps if these things did something other than just move around, and you were 100% immobilized they could possibly pose some sort of a threat... maybe, but mostly they will probably just look like a ridiculously drunk hag trying to get her shit together (or drunk dick, not to be sexist)
11. Ryan - April 30, 2008 3:59 AM
Does the name "Skynet" not mean anything to these people?
12. Cyberwulf - April 30, 2008 6:25 AM
WHat the hell is an accelerometer? are they just making shit up, or is that a real thing?
13. Morono - April 30, 2008 9:06 AM
yoshimi battles the pink Robots !!!! I like that band!!1
14. Ryan - April 30, 2008 9:14 AM
An accelerometer is a device which measures the movement of the object on all 3 axes (X, Y, Z). For example, the IPhone/IPod Touch as one. It can tell when its been turned on its side and changes the screen to suit.
15. Mary Coffins - April 30, 2008 9:32 AM
I have now seen my own death. F***.
16. Scott - April 30, 2008 11:20 AM
SG, you're breaking down my resistance. Don't talk about smelling like stuff that women smell like, I can only hold out so long and I don't want to break my pledge.
Her skin smelled of honeysuckle and it was like ambrosia.....wafting thru the night air it surrounded me in an intoxicating dance of passion. As our bodies touched the pulsating heat of her supple.....
Uh, where am I? I had the weirdest feeling that I was channeling a harlequin romance. Oh yea, SG, please no more in depth descriptions of your female charms.
17. SmokingGirl - April 30, 2008 1:55 PM
I was hardly indepth, Scott. If I was going to be "indepth" I would have described where exactly I smelled like cherry blossoms and where I smelled of sandlewood...with a dab of "Opium" under my ears, at my wrists, on my stomach.
That's indepth, Scott.
18. Shoes - April 30, 2008 1:57 PM
1.) That's pretty neat.
2.) Crap, it can reassemble itself.
3.) Oh good, it moves slow.
4.) Must buy a lot of boxes for the impending robot rebellion, they can't reassemble if they can't find each other!
*reactions watching video*
19. Scott - April 30, 2008 2:45 PM
SG, don't tell me you said Opium! How do you know what drives me wild?
I must breath now.....breath slowly, in and ou....no wait, watch my chest go up and dow.....I didn't mean that either....You see!? You see what you are doing?!
20. wtf scott - April 30, 2008 6:04 PM
you've seen her myspace right? dude...
21. teh_fox - April 30, 2008 8:53 PM
yayyy flaming lips reference!