I for one WELCOME our robot overlords!

Ahaha! The red one. I feel human. This makes me feel human. Oh thank you robot overlords for granting me an inkling of feeling. Now, continue on your maximizing of profits off of planet earth.

>> ^grinter:

Couldn't each ground unit just flash with a unique id code? ...and couldn't each instruction from the aerial unit then use a coded prefix to direct individual ground units? ...and couldn't that happen on the millisecond time scale?
The disco lights don't seem very efficient?


The problem is that the "skybot/drone" is using a relatively inexpensive webcam. These things don't have a very good framerate, and there are a lot of factors that ccould drop frames. If any frame is dropped, then it would misinterpret the "ID" of the ground robot. A webcam is good at discerning red vs. green vs. blue. Something that is faster- IR from a TV remote- has the problem of being non-dimensional, so the drone wouldn't know which ground robot was "talking". Something that might be neat would be the 2D IR sensor from a WiiMote, but I'm not sure what kind of framerate those are capable of.

Also, adding extra sensors to the drone, or getting better ones, or using a faster cpu, would not only increase cost, but more importantly decrease battery life of the drone.

Probably the speed of the LED blinking identification was slowed down for this demo, so it could be explained to the viewers. It's likely capable of going much faster.

The main problem I see in "real world" application is daylight - if it's bright outside, it's much harder to discern color. But at least if our robot overlords attack at night, we'll see them coming in rainbow glory!

I, for one, welcome our new neurally-controlled robotic overlords.

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

@spoco2
You never got hugged as a child. Did you?


Why do you have a problem with me pointing out that this is 99% sure to be a 'hoax'? It's being reported everywhere as real (although a number are saying the video has the whiff of fake about it), and it irks me how readily people fall for things online.

If this were being shown as 'Hey, look at this cool art project' or 'Look at this thing that a guy built in his shed, isn't it awesome? Doesn't really 'do' much, but it's cool' then it'd be a cool video.

But it's being reported everywhere as a REAL robot suit you can really order for 1.3 Million and it'll really do what the video promises.

Would you prefer I just say 'AWESOME! TAKE MY MONEY! I WANT ONE! GIMME! I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR NEW ROBOT OVERLORDS!'?

"And I, for one, welcome our new dancin' robot overlords!"

Dear Future Robot Overlords,

I was never a part of this!

-Jigga



p.s.

(fap fap fap fap fap fap)

I for one, welcome our new tiny buzzing flying robot overlords.

>> ^Lawdeedaw:
>> ^Xaielao:
>> ^newtboy:
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.

The real question is who is going to win between our zombie, insect and giant robot overlords?

Tsk, it's simple. Our insect zombie robots.


You beat me to that one.

>> ^Xaielao:
>> ^newtboy:
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.

The real question is who is going to win between our zombie, insect and giant robot overlords?


Tsk, it's simple. Our insect zombie robots.

>> ^newtboy:

I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.


The real question is who is going to win between our zombie, insect and giant robot overlords?

*promote the hilarious robot overlords!

>> ^siftbot:

Invocations (isdupe) cannot be called by GeeSussFreeK because GeeSussFreeK is not privileged - sorry.


Story of my life siftbot. When the evil robot overlords are fully exploring the potential of the human bio-bemusement pods, I will always be able to look back at times like these and remember our special relationship where I was being brutally cast underfoot before it was "cool" or mandated by the robot hive cluster. And for this, I am eternally grateful.

>> ^Ti_Moth:

I for one welcome our new robot overlords.


I like balls.