Robot draws happy face, gets angry

You know, in the future, people will shout from their rooftops: "A robot! A robot! My kingdom for a robot!" Ok, maybe not, but with apologies to our favorite playwright, robots seem to be everywhere these days. We just came across this video of a very child-like Robonova that drops to its knees, wields a mean marker, and draws a crude happy face, and then scratches it out. Not the most useful of robots, but a good first step. Next thing you know, they'll be teething and speaking in complete -- oh, wait. Maybe Robonova and Actroid should get together, producing a robot that would recite our RSS feed and draw the Engadget logo. Now that would be a robot.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 29th 2006 7:34AM]

where's the video ?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 29th 2006 7:39AM]

here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC7I0r7jS54

[stridermt2k Posted Aug 29th 2006 8:07AM]

But it has the utmost enthusiasm for the mission!!

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 29th 2006 8:33AM]

was anyone else mildly terrified when it started stabbing at the drawing, like it wanted to exchange the pen for a knife and stab it's creator/captors in the face?

[zuluseven Posted Aug 29th 2006 9:02AM]

I have to agree. That was definitely the look of one pissed off robot intent on the guided extinction of humanity. I vote we ban all creative supplies from robot day-cares in order to safeguard our fragile future.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 29th 2006 9:21AM]

What the hell did the swinging on a rope over a box of Captain Crunch have to do with anything?

To be fair, getting a robot to kneel like that and position itself the way that one did to start drawing is actually pretty impressive.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 29th 2006 9:26AM]

Lame. What a waste of time. He didn't look mad, just looked like he was trying to repeat the steps, more like a programming glitch in drawing the smily face.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 29th 2006 9:51AM]

i for one welcome our smily face drawing stabbing robotic over lords

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 29th 2006 10:41AM]

I've made a robot that can do this. I used a Lego Mindstorms starter kit.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 29th 2006 11:25AM]

Bring on the deathray wielding 'kill all humans' robots. We humans have had a good run but come on it's time to be exterminated...

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 29th 2006 1:28PM]

AHHHHHHHHHH, mildly aggravated robots on a plane!

[zuluseven Posted Aug 29th 2006 1:40PM]

Keep laughing, everyone. It may be smiley faces today, but it'll be blueprints for mind control devices and work camps tomorrow...

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 29th 2006 2:44PM]

I love how when the robot made the stabbing motion it provided it's own psycho-esque "scree scree scree" sounds.
This one's gonna grow up to be a killer.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 7:29PM]

I am glad you guys like my robot, I will agree his drawing is a little crude. But a few months after coming into this world I think he is doing well.

As for the cardboard, inside joke, but for more information go to www.robosavvy.com, or stay tuned in at youtube for future videos.

:)