Hide your kids,
iRobot just got that
ChemBot contract DARPA was shopping around last year, which means that before we know it, sentient bots will be oozing through keyholes and making really bad movies without regard for human life or decency. Probably. The project is a "multi-year, multi-million" R&D effort to build robots that are soft and flexible, and can squeeze through openings smaller than their actual "structural" dimensions. And of course the bots can't be stupid piles of ooze, either, they'll need to identify obstacles and report back findings. iRobot is teaming up with Harvard and MIT for the project, and expects to be working in research from fields as diverse as chemistry and "actuator technologies" to build the bots.
posted Jun 17th 2008 11:50AM
I can think of some kinky fun that could be had.
Well at least we won't have animal cruelty videos involving eels and snakes....
On a side note...I think the new apple advertisements are going to start a fanboy war.
one step ahead of you..
Meh.... I'm used to apple lies already....
mmm....cant gt enough of that apple goodness from engadget.
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/5640/appleml8.png
...but what does your obsession with Apple have to do with this particular story involving DARPA and iRobot?
It would be really great if the robot could generate power by dissolving human flesh and absorbing the nutrients!
Mike
Indeed, what a brilliant idea!
How about you be their first test subject?
Who needs testing?
I think I have Apple-rage....
iRobot is freaking awesome.
Oh, you're just saying that cuz you think that iRobot is somehow related to Apple! Lousy Apple fanboys!
This is eggzactly the same as the robots described in The Rudy Rucker trillogy "Software", "Realware", & "Freeware".
They're usually pretty good with that.
FLUBBER RULZ!!!
wow...high quality comments today
I for one welcome our new gelatinous robot overlords.
I, for one, welcome our new stupid piles of ooze... -erlords.
Will it go through HUMAN mouth and come out of bottom? There is such a clip in that movie! (:|)