August 4, 2010

Oh God No: A Stair-Climbing LEGO Robot

Filed Under: aaaaahh / apocalypse / autonomous / destroy the stairs we're only using ladders from now on! / do not like / if you can make an autonomous stair-climbing robot out of lego pieces just imagine what you could do with lincoln logs! / kidding i only lava lil b / lego / not good / robot / stairs / uh-oh / we're all gonna die

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This is a video of X2 (who looks suspiciously like the illegitimate buttchild of Johnny 5 and WALL-E), an AUTONOMOUS robot built from a LEGO Mindstorms NXT set that can climb and descend stairs on it's own. We aren't even safe upstairs anymore! Do I have your attention now? Good, I'm the world's greatest lover. But that's not the point. The point is -- wait -- no that was the point. The lovemakin': I'm good at it. Just thought you should know in case you're writing my biography. Also, put something in there about how I once tamed a volcano with my sexual prowess. WHICH I DID DO. Didn't I, Mount St. Helens? I lava you.

Hit the jump for a 4-minute video that you should really only watch 30-seconds of.

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Thanks to Zombiepartz, purveyor of the finest rotting limbs money can buy.

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