Sep 29 2009I'm Not Sitting On It: Real Robotic Transformer
This is a real-life Transformer (OmniZero.9, the brainchild of Takeshi Maeda) that can morph from a humanoid robot to a humanoid robot that can carry a person, to a wheeled cart. Just watch how scary it is when it moves. If I didn't know better, I'd swear there was a little person in there. But there isn't! Just wires and servos and a metallic heart of death. Which, true story, only beats for the destruction of the human race. And speaking of which: One time I competed in a three-legged race solo.
Hit the jump for a video of the robot battling another, much smaller one.
OmniZero.9 Robot Transforms Into Rideable Car [techeblog]
Thanks to Michael, who once won a four-legged race because he was raised by wolves.
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Reader Comments
1. sam - September 29, 2009 12:16 PM
first?
2. Cup-O-Jesus - September 29, 2009 12:16 PM
no
3. Jaded Icon - September 29, 2009 12:18 PM
Definately deserves no mercy.....oh the robot? I was talking about Kayne West.
4. Leeto - September 29, 2009 12:22 PM
That's not even a fair fight
5. Cup-O-Jesus - September 29, 2009 12:24 PM
I'll be damned! I AM omniscient.
6. ObamaPacman - September 29, 2009 12:24 PM
This is way cooler.
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/08/sweet_costume_bro_bumblebee_tr.php
7. Ham Bone - September 29, 2009 12:26 PM
That thing is more scary then "Johnny 5" the supposed lovable robot from short circuit ... and just like Johnny 5 when you start to trust it, it will rip your heart out via your anus (or go all bumblebee on you and help you hook up with a megan fox type girl with syphilis so you just die a slow death just like al capone)
8. naas - September 29, 2009 12:27 PM
I thought the blades in it's forearms were great until the dude got up & sat on it's face
@2 http://www.sneeko.net/images/gifs1/sharkgif.gif
9. jaja - September 29, 2009 12:30 PM
I like it.
10. tentencanidae - September 29, 2009 12:37 PM
haha.. melt them into crayons for real biological humans to color with.
also, warning.. i followed this link from another geekologie reader, and i've been hooked ALL DAY!
http://tentencanidae.mybrute.com
11. Klay Dayman Christian - September 29, 2009 12:37 PM
GW, you need to go on a crusade through the land of the rising sun and eradicate the mechanical scourge that is rapidly amassing there. If you are enlisting, you need only ask and your loyal readers will ASSEMBLE!!!
DEATH TO A.I.!!!
12. Mr. cow - September 29, 2009 12:39 PM
Moo
13. Kanye Westicles - September 29, 2009 12:48 PM
stupid.
14. mike - September 29, 2009 12:49 PM
good thing that robot can only punch sideways, so if you stay in front of him theres no harm. and i have to say, his transformed mode sucks, what is he, somekind of wheeled surfboard? i bet that guy couldn't even carry an energon cube.
15. David Sadi - September 29, 2009 1:19 PM
when it flays its arm and shows of all its hidden death arm weapons, it made me pee myself a lil bit
16. Cinema Obsessed - September 29, 2009 1:22 PM
Seems to be programmed to strike a lot of poses.
17. pedo pedro - September 29, 2009 1:28 PM
It's an mechanised Ass-Tickler ???
18. Tjoertell - September 29, 2009 1:57 PM
Someone else had to be moderately creeped out by what sounded like 'Auld Lang Syne' playing in the background.
19. JFreezy - September 29, 2009 3:11 PM
Who in their right mind would willingly put their ass and nether reigon into the maw of an awaiting death machine?!?!?!?!?!?!? Me.................... I'm kinky like that.
20. numb3rsix - September 29, 2009 3:11 PM
@18. yep and that's the only reason I checked out comments on this thing. Thanks for your kinship in the matter, I feel slightly less creeped out now.
21. conspiracy - September 29, 2009 3:15 PM
Yeah i was slightly freaked about the music in the background. But you ALL HAVE BEEN WARNED!!! Now it is up to you to stop the zombie robot apocalypse in 2012. GOOD LUCK!!!
22. graaf zeppelin - September 29, 2009 3:51 PM
@19 I'd hit it.
the fight is hilarious. that machine's got some really good programming to be a dick.
23. J-red - September 29, 2009 5:47 PM
I think everyone is missing what this really is: A TurboMan (not the Arnold Schwarzenegger Jingle All the Way Turboman (which I did not just remember...)) prototype for the live-action MegaMan movie!!!!! (Which, consequently, will have a tie in with M&Ms)
24. cthulu_mt - September 29, 2009 6:03 PM
Aud Lang Syme playing in the background is really creepy.
25. Doobydoo - September 29, 2009 8:25 PM
I like how "Old Lang Syne' is playing in the backgroung as if for humanity
26. jaime - September 29, 2009 10:50 PM
@25 yeah i was going to comment on that. it's kind of like new years eve, everybody's singing that song cause it's the end of the year, only in this case it's the end of the world and the robots are taking over.
27. Rich Waffle-U - September 30, 2009 10:34 AM
My favourite bit is the bit where the robot just falls smack on his face. What a douche. It takes him ages to remember to look up after that, which in my estimation gives ample opportunity to run over and stamp on his head a few times. Robots keep their robobrains in their heads, right?
28. Kyle - October 2, 2009 2:28 AM
They use Auld Lang Syne in Japan for telling customers to get hurry up and get out, because the store is closing.