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27 Responses to “Reassemblable Modular Robot”

1. rerun Says:
   January 30th, 2009 at 5:49 pm

   In 50 years, intelligent robots will hunt down that guy doing the kicking and get their revenge.

2. Stu Says:
   January 30th, 2009 at 6:04 pm

   In defense of this, we are also one step closer to the Iron Giant, as well.

3. M Says:
   January 30th, 2009 at 6:36 pm

   Terrifying.

   Has your bookreview on this subject appeared yet?

4. Nylund Says:
   January 30th, 2009 at 7:28 pm

   On the plus side for humans in the inevitable war with the machines, there is a limited amount of steel in the world and it will get increasingly harder to get it. We, on the other hand, can turn a number of things into flesh and bones, as anyone who has ever witnessed the strange concoctions eaten by a pregnant woman can attest to. On the downside, they can build theirs to maturity. Ours come out all teeny and soft and it takes almost 2 decades for them to be of much use fighting the machines.

   Now should the machines decide to make themselves out of some sort of carbon polymer that can be made from human flesh, then we’re fucked.

5. dm Says:
   January 30th, 2009 at 7:35 pm

   I found the bit at the end, where the robot, having reassembled itself and stood up, tries to take a step and falls over (only to be laughed at by its human tormentors) rather charming.

6. Richard Steven Hack Says:
   January 30th, 2009 at 8:21 pm

   Got a ways to go before they match Catherine Weaver, indeed!

   T1001 Urinal Transformation
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE6EFotzBoY&feature=related

   Shirley Manson Death Kiss Terminator
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_oECpATybo&feature=related

7. Richard Steven Hack Says:
   January 30th, 2009 at 8:43 pm

   Not that Catherine Weaver isn’t trying to be a good mother!

   Savannah, Sit Here With Me
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3myO26WDKVQ

   I think he’s trying to hug me
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c42jwgQceMQ&feature=related

8. Grumpy Says:
   January 30th, 2009 at 9:49 pm

   rerun: “…that guy doing the kicking…”

   You mean the guy applying the external disturbance.

9. Anthony Damiani Says:
   January 30th, 2009 at 11:17 pm

   Great!
   Now, can we make the banking sector out of these blocks?

10. cw Says:
    January 31st, 2009 at 1:08 am

    They’re so cute!

11. Njorl Says:
    January 31st, 2009 at 10:36 am

    On the plus side for humans in the inevitable war with the machines, there is a limited amount of steel in the world and it will get increasingly harder to get it.

    Nonsense. Most of the iron in the world is in a convenient liquid form.

12. Richard Steven Hack Says:
    January 31st, 2009 at 10:10 pm

    Besides which, in episode four in season one, Skynet sent back Terminator Carter to secure a shipment of coltan alloy in a nuclear fallout shelter so it would be available after Skynet’s nuclear attack to make Terminators.

    So Skynet is already thinking ahead, or, er…behind…whatever. (I hate time travel.)

    TSCC EP 4 PART 1
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkWl75SZPsw

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