Video: Blaser tournament unwisely fits Japanese robots with lasers -- PEW PEW

Look Japan, we know you love your robots but is it really prudent to equip them with frigging laser beams? Why not just hand them maps to our vital organs and special hoses to juice our babies? You're looking at an actual photo from the Blazer tournament held this week in Fukuoka City, Japan. The competition fitted Kondo's KHR-1HV with lasers and sensors and then let the teams battle it out in a mock-up city. We truly are the makers of our own doom.

Update: Video added after the break, pew pew... pew-pew, pew.

[Thanks, HolyMary]

[pgpprotector @ Apr 24th 2008 1:31AM]

Back away from your keyboards developers.

[phanbouy @ Apr 24th 2008 3:26AM]

guess those developers got a little *too* gung ho after steve ballmer's monkey boy dance

[Bernhard @ Apr 24th 2008 5:09AM]

That would explain why they keep on falling down.

[Pierre @ Apr 24th 2008 1:34AM]

PEW PEW PEW

[Michael LaFramboise @ Apr 24th 2008 3:52AM]

BANG BANG BANG

PEW PEW

BOOM

BAAAAM

~~~silence~~~

[Technex @ Apr 24th 2008 4:58AM]

PEW PEW

Take a look at this PEW PEW video! :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbaTur4A1OU

Lol!

[haX0r @ Apr 24th 2008 11:21PM]

I'll take my Kimber SIS .45 and drop those robots from 100 yards away thank you very much...instead of pew pew pew....you would 1 KABOOM. Robot dead.

[Randall @ Apr 24th 2008 1:41AM]

I, for one, frankly didn't expect our robot overlords to be this directly created by us.

[gabe @ Apr 24th 2008 1:41AM]

damn Japanese are so ahead of the pact!

u know they are going to have the 1st Man and Robot wedding.

and your invited :)

[gabe @ Apr 24th 2008 2:00AM]

"You're" for those b1tches

[bitch @ Apr 26th 2008 7:41AM]

ahead of the "pack"

-sincerely,

"bitch number 273"

[zomg0t @ Apr 24th 2008 3:29AM]

It's spelled "bitches"

[phanbouy @ Apr 24th 2008 3:31AM]

b1tches iz l337, didntcha hear?

[zomg0t @ Apr 24th 2008 4:39AM]

I'd like to see you find "zomgot" in a dictionary. zomg0t is fact. So says I.

[Patriks7 @ Apr 24th 2008 6:01AM]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=zomgot
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=zomg0t
ur wr0ng m8 ;)

[Spelt Wright @ Apr 24th 2008 8:08AM]

It's spelled "pack".

[thought I'd be a spelling weenie, too, seeing as how there are so many here and I didn't want to stand out from the crowd]

[Owen @ Apr 24th 2008 1:43AM]

That photograph is simultaneously the coolest and most disturbing thing I have ever seen.

[peter @ Apr 24th 2008 5:51PM]

i m gonna start building my robotic disguise suit now

[Zach @ Apr 24th 2008 1:53AM]

i agree. we're screwed, yet so..enticed.

[angelicbeef @ Apr 24th 2008 1:54AM]

I can't believe it's taken them this long. I've been putting lasers into my transformers, GI joes, and marvel characters for years. The hit detection sensors is definitley a plus.

[webon @ Apr 24th 2008 2:03AM]

how about frickin' sharks?

[Wilson @ Apr 24th 2008 2:05AM]

This is Blade... Laser... Blaser

[vileta2 @ Apr 24th 2008 2:16AM]

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

[warrrennnnn @ Apr 24th 2008 2:58AM]

office reference?

[phanbouy @ Apr 24th 2008 3:25AM]

hey i know that meme! isn't that from the cosby show?

[nh @ Apr 24th 2008 5:04AM]

It was first uttered in an episode of Neighbours, by Scott Robinson aka Jason Donovan

[matjet @ Apr 24th 2008 5:36AM]

No, that quote is from the bowls of engadget comment sections. It's exact origins lost in the mists of time, as the meme was repeated again and again in a time before the engadget blog even existed yet still had commenter's commenting on stuff.

[james @ Apr 24th 2008 11:34AM]

I believe it is a quote from the simpsons, kent brockman reporting on the closeup shot of the ants on homers space shuttle. There could have been one before that I guess. But its the only one in my heart!

[phanbouy @ Apr 24th 2008 2:11PM]

@james

it's from the simpsons? NO SHIT SHERLOCK!

[Schfelzerberg @ Apr 24th 2008 2:54AM]

'PEW PEW'? Isn't that Star Wars blasters?

[Vic the One @ Apr 24th 2008 2:56AM]

But can they play d- .... well, never mind... If they can, that means there's no doubt they are capable of killing or enslaving myself and all my loved ones.

Anyone want to move to the north pole with me? That's probably the last place they'll come looking for us.

[Brian from Texas @ Apr 24th 2008 3:16AM]

North Pole, sshhhhhh! They won't know until they read your post, douche. Good looking out for your fellow man.

[BowserUSC @ Apr 24th 2008 3:20AM]

I for one think this is awesome.

[phanbouy @ Apr 24th 2008 3:27AM]

not to nitpick, but isn't it FRICKIN laser beams?

[nh @ Apr 24th 2008 5:10AM]

Yes, it's frickin', which is a non-rude version of the other F work. Unlike friggin' which means... well I'll leave you to look it up in the urban dictionary...

[TJ Johnson @ Apr 24th 2008 7:58AM]

No time to look it up...it's fuckin' right? It HAS to be fuckin' laser beams. I'm totally right, aren't I?

[HolyMary @ Apr 24th 2008 3:40AM]

Here is actual video.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNWNByB7tUY&eurl)

[gad get @ Apr 24th 2008 4:45AM]

Wow. So lame. I stopped watching after about ten seconds when I realized that all they were going to do is stand there jerking clumsily around like a bunch of action figures on strings and shine little barely-visible beams of red light around at each other. Booorrriinng...

[Earl Jr. @ Apr 24th 2008 3:54AM]

Please tell me they can make smooth human-like motions. I want my inevitable demise at the hands of our overlords to be awesome.

[Valgas @ Apr 24th 2008 4:06AM]

Damned Japanese ! They're going to get the world pewed.

[Armoured @ Apr 24th 2008 4:26AM]

That looks so cool!!

[JaXX @ Apr 24th 2008 5:10AM]

... "BATLLE" :-) Yeah, they have problems with english, but damn, they do have fun with things we can barely get our hands on !

[Garst @ Apr 24th 2008 5:56AM]

We don't have to worry until they start putting bees in their mouths. That's when things will really get bad.

[Gaz @ Apr 24th 2008 6:28AM]

Stop humping the laser!

[pete @ Apr 24th 2008 6:29AM]

Hmm - we're all safe - all of the (human) participants are wearing no eye protection. Jobs for blind ex-robo techies anyone?

[raldan @ Apr 24th 2008 7:48AM]

"The road to hell is paved with helpful machines." - Douglas Adams

[hotwings1 @ Apr 24th 2008 8:07AM]

Sign of the apocalypse?

[simen.ringstad @ Apr 24th 2008 8:08AM]

Looking at the picture got me worried for a moment. Then I saw the video and realized the robots are tiny. Even the Japanese looks big compared to the tiny killbots!

[FRZ @ Apr 24th 2008 10:23AM]

Tiny now but, wait to they unite into a giant robot and plow your puny little human body into sluch

[Wes @ Apr 24th 2008 8:59AM]

pew pew

got ya!

no you didn't!

yes I did!

I put up my magic force field!

I used a 2x power laser!

I used an infinity powred force field!

My laser is 2x infinity!

Dad! He's cheating!


(seriously a conversation my kids had yesterday)