Ok, so that big hulking autonomous vehicle pictured above looks nothing like little Timmy's bestest bud (except maybe in the later years, when he let the fame get to his head), but Lassie and this yellow Japanese firefighting bot do have one thing in common: no fear of charging into a burning building and pulling out the victims with their jaws or claws, respectively. From the looks of things, these humanitarian-tank-cum-playground-slides are controlled by a remote operator looking through that camera above the headlights -- which is definitely a good thing, because we don't really want robots pinching at us with their hydraulic fingers until machine vision has significantly improved. And of course, team this up with a
hosebot,
snakebot, or
fire-snuffing flower, and you've just obviated the need for millions of firefighters worldwide, as well as crushed the hopes and dreams of countless small, career-minded children.
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posted Mar 17th 2007 7:31PM
scary, it looks like a wood chipper to me...
Yeah, it's a good thing it knows how to pick up the unconscious. (Ha, looks like by the neck?)
If that thing with its massive claws came chasing after me in a fire I wouldn't be in it til I did pass out. The first picture looks like they're feeding it a human, all it needs is teeth around the opening. XD
- Josh
Where's your head at? - http://www.StateOfBrain.com
That is some funny shit Josh. Humor at it's best right here folks. "Where's your head at?" HaHaHa.
That looks too big to be used in practical fire applications. how is it going to save people in a fire if it can't get in through the door?
That robot somehow reminds me of this truck in the movie Soylent green: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/Soylent_Green_cover.jpg
almost like i-robot too after will was being chased and the big machines came and cleaned up the mess
@ Nikita
- That's cuz it doesn't plan on fitting through the door! It's just gonna run through everything and smash into stuff to find the humans - that is if they haven't killed them already...
@ Jason
- That totally came to mind!
This robot looks like it's going to eat you... I would rather run than getting picked up by this thing
I love how it gently handles the human!
I love it. When our robotic overlords take over they will have something to clean up our bodies.
Dude, no way. I'd flip out if something like this came charging at me, trying to put me in its stomach. Even more so if a Japanese guy says "Don'tuh wurree. You be safe in stoh-mach!"
I'll take my chances with something natural, like fire, thank you very much.
Um. Lassie was a girl. Hence the name "Lassie".
Erhem..
...tank-come-playground...
or is it just me?
@Jon:
It's just you. "Cum" is the Latin word for "with," hence the similar-sounding Spanish "con." (Derived from the Latin root, whereas the English "with" is Germanic in origin.) It functions in language as a sort of "/". This would be a tank-with-playground-slide or a tank/playground slide.
As to the issue:
Keep that thing the Hell away from me. Burning building or not.
Imagine waking up in that thing; I'd be freaked out. I hope it comes with AC!
Cool. Looks like a Wood Chipper to me.
I want one. :)
killer klowns from outer space.... definitely...
Yup, woodchipper was also my first thought...
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE
LOL..
It makes me think also, that chopping is next.. :D
That's totally 'Mek-Quake' from the ABC Warriors!!
http://bp2.blogger.com/_6rF2PP4knJE/Rf0a1Yw-jnI/AAAAAAAAABE/ZEKb_Gl5wPo/s1600-h/mek3.jpg
Hahahhahahaha...
This is so stupid. The humans will have died before the robot is finished. It's much faster and safer for all it a human just do it. Japanese people always trying to do everything with robots, ok it's cool but it's far from efficient and won't work well in real life and real situations. This is cool, but it's just stupid. It's the engineers playground, the engineers sandbox. It's robots by nerds for nerds. This is just plain stupid technology.
Looks like garbage robot. Dead bodies will be fast collected and recycled.
I think that in the future we will have some factories that will recycle all - furniture, garbage and dead people - to clean our environment and because any free land for cemetries will be overloaded and very expensive to bury.
So, it has finally happened.
Machines that eat people.
I thought SkyNet would have come first.
Uhh,sure, whatever you say... I think I will go with option B that while they say it could be used to extract bodies from burning building, its likely more appropriate to remove bodies from a bio-hazard or other contamination zone? Tokyou has already had one gas attack.
I for one welcome our new lifesaving, corpse collecting, playground slide equipped robotic overlords.
I think people trapped in burning buildings will find their own way out, rather than be dragged out by that... whatever it is.
@jwer: 'Um. Lassie was a girl. Hence the name "Lassie".'
Actually the dog that played the original Lassie was male, not female. (Sorry: I'm pedantic.)
@Grant: 'I thought SkyNet would have come first.'
You obviously haven't heard - we Brits have already launched Skynet: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6434773.stm
Seems kind of complicated just to snatch chains.
Funny. All I think of when I see this is...
"Bring out your dead. *Ding* Bring out your dead..."
Well there seems to be another robot in the pipeline that can now lift people out of a bed.
http://www.coolasfunk.com/the-cool-and-the-funky/robot-that-can-sit-up-and-pick-people-up.html