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I'm pretty sure that this is going to happen because the Army has significantly greater funds than pervs.]]>Dec 30th 2005 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/30/the-fighting-android-fa1-sdts-boxing-sparring-partner/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/30/the-fighting-android-fa1-sdts-boxing-sparring-partner/Dec 30th 2005 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/30/the-fighting-android-fa1-sdts-boxing-sparring-partner/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/30/the-fighting-android-fa1-sdts-boxing-sparring-partner/Dec 30th 2005 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/30/the-fighting-android-fa1-sdts-boxing-sparring-partner/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/30/the-fighting-android-fa1-sdts-boxing-sparring-partner/


But really, this is the beginning of the end. Goodbye humanity. I just hope they assimilate the brightest of us. I've always wanted to be a cyborg.]]>Dec 30th 2005 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/30/the-fighting-android-fa1-sdts-boxing-sparring-partner/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/30/the-fighting-android-fa1-sdts-boxing-sparring-partner/Dec 30th 2005 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/30/the-fighting-android-fa1-sdts-boxing-sparring-partner/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/30/the-fighting-android-fa1-sdts-boxing-sparring-partner/
Teacher: for homework 3 books of advanced mathematics and quantum mechanics.

Robot: come here a minute... BAM!



ahhhh....]]>Jan 1st 2006 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/30/the-fighting-android-fa1-sdts-boxing-sparring-partner/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/30/the-fighting-android-fa1-sdts-boxing-sparring-partner/Jan 1st 2006 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/30/the-fighting-android-fa1-sdts-boxing-sparring-partner/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/30/the-fighting-android-fa1-sdts-boxing-sparring-partner/


Also, I know the story is about robot vs. human training, but would a robot vs. robot fight really entail violence? (i.e. The kind that the media will use as a scapegoat once they've ridden the "violence in video games" horse into the ground.)



I can see the bumperstickers: "Robots don't kill people, programmers do."



Glad I'm a H/W guy...]]>Jan 1st 2006 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/30/the-fighting-android-fa1-sdts-boxing-sparring-partner/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/30/the-fighting-android-fa1-sdts-boxing-sparring-partner/
but what will the "flesh" be made out of once the cheap oil peaks and then goes into decline... becoming vastly more expensive oil. Isn't plastic made from oil? We are about to head into the last oil crisis, but we still have time to make fighting manequins? I don't get it.]]>Jan 2nd 2006 8:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/30/the-fighting-android-fa1-sdts-boxing-sparring-partner/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/30/the-fighting-android-fa1-sdts-boxing-sparring-partner/


"Nice,

but what will the "flesh" be made out of once the cheap oil peaks and then goes into decline... becoming vastly more expensive oil. Isn't plastic made from oil? We are about to head into the last oil crisis, but we still have time to make fighting manequins? I don't get it."

That or the numerous plastics made from plants, vegetable/soy oils and numerous other compounds.]]>Jan 3rd 2006 10:11AM