the epitome of a perfect soundtrack

btw, if you're into this kind of music, trifonic's album can be listened to and downloaded (legally) here. good luck sleeping.

I'd love that so it could bring me cups of tea.

Very cool, but frightening. Your tag is wrong, should read "do NOT want."

Getting closer to destruction of our race...

Swarms of those things clearing away rubble would come in handy in Italy right about now.

I for one welcome our new insect overlords

I wonder how much of this is autonomus. That is, how detailed are the commands sent by the remote? Is it high-level like "rotate around neck", or low-level like "move joint 3"?

Also, judging by the soda can, this is hardly the size of an ant, which is why it's just ant-inspired.

Oh wait, i'm supposed to be creeped out by this! Aaaagghh!

>> ^gwiz665:
Getting closer to destruction of our race...


Actually, I took it one step further in terms of the strange associations:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Why-Terminator-s-Transport-Naked

Fetch me a Coke, sodabot.

Very cool.

Ant must be sad he didn't sift it first.

I pity your primitive minds. It is not creepy in the least.

creepy as hell? more like AWESOME as hell!

I have an autonomous abdomen too!

REPLICATORS!!!!

All it needs is a laser on top.

Not at all creepy. Seems to like to hump, though.

Anyone else thinking hard about this as a mobile weapons platform, or have I read a little too much Shirow?

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Very cool. I had to keep reminding myself that it wasn't cgi.

It would be an awesome video if it wasn't for the constant ground humping complimented by the porn music. It has some very fluid movements. Other than when it tries to walk. It looks like a generic rigid robot walk.

I'm fairly certain that robot was having sex with the floor throughout most of the video.

First of all, that completely blew my mind away. I am so impressed.

Some of that though was because of how loosely the term robot i suppose can be used. When i was watching the video i thought it was completely autonomous, but then at the end it showed the remote control.

So it is slightly misleading to call it a robot, as calling it as such had led me to think it was using sensors to detect the pop and the claws control was based on sensors. At the end of the day though, the actuators is the impressive part of this contraption, as it is so fluid and lifelike; the sensors i'm sure this person has enough talent to put on there as well and make it truly a robot.

Regardless, it is an amazing feat of engineering.

It seems remarkably agile for having just 25 servos. All robots are stuff of the *future in my book.

Adding video to channels (Future) - requested by kronosposeidon.

A beautiful piece of engineering and robotics. Creepy? I for one would love a pet robotic ant .

>> ^deputydog:
the epitome of a perfect soundtrack
btw, if you're into this kind of music, trifonic's album can be listened to and downloaded (legally) here. good luck sleeping.


If you like that kind of music, I can also reccomend BT - This Binary Universe.

One of the videos from that album is here - http://www.videosift.com/video/BT-1-618-Mezmerising-Video
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