Robovie-X is coming to get you

Remember the cock fighter we peeped back in August? He's far more deadly than we had imagined and now up for pre-order in Japan. At least his Robovie-X underpinnings are. The 13.5-inch / 2.86-pound bot manufactured by JR Robotics should start shipping in February for a pre-order price of ¥94,500 (about $856). This robot features the impressive pliability of his lessor RB2000 brother while including new voice response sensors and weaponry. In fact, the two can share parts in a mutant servo mashup only a mother robot could love. Oh did we mention this one can track targets and then blast it with missiles? Gulp, see for yourself in the video after the break.

[Via Impress]

[Reader @ Dec 5th 2007 5:14AM]

They forget to mention that's the 1:1000 scale model O.O

[Chrismix @ Dec 5th 2007 5:14AM]

hes really slow to respond..

[David @ Dec 5th 2007 6:00AM]

Is it too much to ask that a few more things track targets and shoot missles?

We're looking at you pleo...

[Future Trend @ Dec 5th 2007 7:32AM]

Honestly,is that really difficult to do. Spot a large Yellow object over a background which we don't even see (behind camera) and point the robot to throw something at it.

There is a lot more you can do these days. Granted it has "media" appeal, but so what, think of something useful to do with robots. There is a lot, believe me.

[NHAnimator @ Dec 5th 2007 8:13AM]

Watch your kneecaps!

[Chird @ Dec 5th 2007 8:39AM]

Time to go buy me some yellow pants so I can give this thing a workout

[Jack @ Dec 5th 2007 9:45AM]

I for one... ah sod it

[Digital1 @ Dec 5th 2007 10:44AM]

I for one welcome our robotic,war-like, weapon-wielding overlords.

[Jack @ Dec 6th 2007 4:33AM]

good use of alliteration there

[ZeroCorpse @ Dec 5th 2007 9:53AM]

Isn't it amazing that the Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, and other Asian nations can make such amazing, versatile robots that shall someday dominate us with their superior strength, intelligence, and firepower, and yet they also have the tendency to give these same robots the most ridiculous, silly, benign-sounding names ever?

Really. . . We're watching movies where the domination is performed by T-1000, ED-209, and Megatron, and we're given robots in the real world named Robovie-X, ASIMO, and Roomba.

I fear someday we'll all cursing some really silly names as we're driven into slavery. "Attention humans! Your time is over. You have been conquered by Boopsibot-IX and our allies, The Razmatazz Robo. BOW DOWN or the Hello Kitty Patrolbots will punish you!"

Asia: Great robots, awful names for robots.

(and way too many robots that care whether or not you touch their breasts)

[webon @ Dec 5th 2007 8:33PM]

you forgot Justin

[Typhoid Mary @ Dec 6th 2007 12:09PM]

I have got to get this! Been having a lot of problems lately with these 2 yellow cups glued together that just moved in next door.