Vinegar: conducting the robotic uprising
By Thomas Ricker 
posted May 18th 2007 9:01AM
posted May 18th 2007 9:01AM
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Can we get these robots to look a little more menacing, like with teeth and claws?
so what's this for?....
I,for one, welcome our menacing looking, stick wielding, skirt wearing overlords.
This has got to be in Terminator 4.
nice boob, baby!
K, he flinched a few times in the video, so I'm not sure how robotic he is, but looks cool.
he seems pretty insecure to me, constantly looking down at the ground. Maybe it's all just a ploy.
And Ras, how about you get a new f'n joke? Now you are just the loser kid in the class repeating the joke the funny kid said weeks ago in a desperate attempt to be cool. Stop it, and find your own humor.
And no, Yakov Smirnoff cannot help.
PDub:
In Soviet Russia, dead horse beats you!
In the robot world there is no need for more than one breast and this robot is obviously a girl. Is your meat sack dancing now, schoolboys?
"And Ras, how about you get a new f'n joke? Now you are just the loser kid in the class repeating the joke the funny kid said weeks ago in a desperate attempt to be cool. Stop it, and find your own humor."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
Posting the "I for one, welcome our ____ overlords" is an obligatory statement on engadget. If Ras hadn't posted it, I would've. And if I hadn't, someone else would've. If you really dislike it, then don't draw attention to it. For what it's worth, it made me chuckle.
me too.
Agreed. I don't understand the people who get angry about the overlord jokes. Half the fun of finding a robot story on Engadget or Slashdot is reading the dumb overlord comment(s). Makes me chuckle too.
I'm waiting for his companion kitten robot pets, Fish and Chips.
His name needs to be Darth Vinegar.
Looks like Marvin, the paranoid android. I feel sad just watching it.
The way they implemented the mouth is pretty cool though
I would have called it the Darth Dalek
The Vinegar robot knows stuff about vinegar and will conduct presentation to a japanes vinegar-companys guest. Boring... But it looks pretty cool. :)
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/05/tamanoi-vinegar-robot/
So it's just a metronome, right?
What's more impressive are those organic metronomes they have now...what do they call them? Oh, yes. Conductors.
Am I the first one to think of Box from Logan's Run here?
http://www.jeffbots.com/box.html
Mmmm...
Robotic uniboob.
Is it doing the maracrena in the video?
Its that the robotic transvestite version of darth vader?
Speaking as a fellow conductor, I can say I'm not impressed. Darth Vinegar stares at the sheet music too much (I'm assuming that's why he keeps looking down) when he should be making eye contact with the musicians. Of course, if I was in this guy's group, I think eye contact with him might freak me out a little, and I'd miss all my entrances. Yikes.
I want a robot with a serious attitude adjustment problem--a real meanstreak. Perhaps I need a Pusher or Shover Robot.
yesa masta, imma play the tune real well.
By the way engadget that was the most funny post in days, i tip my hat
Doesn't matter if the robots wearing a skirt, shawl or mumu, my "meat sack" will not be dancing when it points it's "stick" in my direction!
No no no, you've all got it wrong, this is Darth Vader's robotic nanny :)
why the hell do we keep building these things??? we just added a General to their army of killbots.
please stop! wont anyone think about the children!?!?!
He's lean, mean, ready to kick @ss... and he's doing it sporting a "to die for", sexy black skirt by Dolce and Gabbana.
first depressed robot?