Toyota's TPR-Robina facility guide leads you straight to your doom
By Thomas Ricker 
posted August 23rd 2007 4:13AM
posted August 23rd 2007 4:13AM
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But does it play Doom?
Seriously, if I give it a gun, will it kill zombies?
Looks like its left hand is giving me the fingers..
Damn phreaky robots..
Looks more like "she's" throwing some robo gang signs. Cyber Side!!!
That, is scary.
That is absolutely terrifying
LOL, if Toyota wants us to adopt these robots into human society I think they need to stop hollowing out the eyes like that !
....I swear it's like she already knows all my secrets [shivers].
OMG TOYOLITTLE SISTER
You thought those were fingers? they are for extracting the Adam from your corpse...
I hope this sucker's bullet proof, because if something that freaky looking approached me I wouldn't heasitate to shoot first and then ask for directions.
No matter.
She'll catch those bullets with those freaky hands of hers -- AND give you the fingers at the same time.
that evil thing looks like it's playing air guitar - this bot possibly programed to beat you at guitar hero?
The receptionist robot from Mitsubishi is no less scary.
http://www.robotliving.com/2007/06/15/weekly-robot-roundup-5/
You know she'd kick your ass at Wii sports, though.
ZOMG, Engadget just banned me for being a Giz fanboy. that's so lame, guys.
i'm thinking the eyes light up.
I for one welcome our three fingered, hollow eyed, customer greeting robotic overlords.
This looks a lot like that robot from Logan's Run. "Fish! Plankton! Protein from the Sea!"
I actually like this design. It seems like a knowledgeable assistant robot from some super clean future society that lives in a city floating in the sky. Definitely better than the Mitsubishi one.
Seiburu!
He's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a dolls eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites you. Then those black eyes roll over white. And then...well you hear that terrible high pitch.....
As much it reminded me of Box from Logan's Run, the molded white plastic and carved hairstyle reminds of the robot women in a Dr. Who episode of the "Bad Wolf" conclusion. They were parodying the two women on BBC that tell you how crappy your style looks.
I'm sure TPR-Robina will greet me in a much better way, telling me how fashionable I look, just before she plucks the eyes from my head and uses my head as a bowling ball for the amusement of all the industrial robots.
Asymmetrical jaw-length bobs aren't necessarily the best look on the bottom-heavy.
Still,I'd like to get her together with 3 or 4 of those fleshy gray Emo Phillips robots from a month or two ago. I wanna do an Electro remix of Spinal Tap's "Big Bottom", and she and the Emo-bots would be perfect for the music video. I may need to mist her down with PenzOil during the Toyota Yaris-washing scene... Hey, are those finger-thingies dexterous enough to grab hold of a Carl's Jr. Burger?
Lastly, Is she a... pleasure-bot? I'm sure the lead Emo-bot's gonna wanna hit that, so I need to know what she's workin' with. Wait. I don't even know what that Emo-bot's working with.
Nevermind.
...am I the only one to think she's kinda cute?