Video: Kintore-Z robot is easily the world's most bizarre
By Thomas Ricker 
posted January 15th 2009 6:14AM
posted January 15th 2009 6:14AM
posted January 15th 2009 6:14AM
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Ok, thats scary
Because it's an eye-blazing, arm-falling, eyebrow-popping, jaw-dropping, floor-brushing video clip?
The gauge in the back ground is measuring how much the robot is exerting itself (努 comes from Chinese), but I have no idea about the rest.
Anyone read Japanese?
@ Leehom
The purpose of the light column on the wall is pretty much self-explaining, but thanks for your clarification nonetheless.
Don't be scared, it's just Casper on Valium.
My kanji (Chinese character) reading is minimal at best, but the small writing at the left side of the left poster says Kintorei in hiragana, which would be Kintore- (with the hyphen-like thing elongating the "re") in katakana. On the right-hand poster, after the kanji it says child robo kintore- Z (cha i ru do ro bo ki n to re- Z)
crapgadget.
That creeped the crap out of me. I hate humanoid robots. If I was as close as that kid was I would probably slit my wrist.
1+ for the music.
2+ for the awesome red mechanical eye brows popping out of his forehead!
I particularly like the eyebrows-producing mechanism. I see a lot of potential to it.
3+ for kid picking his nose with toothbrush
+2 For the determination of that machine to do no-handed pushups.
Chuck Norris comes to mind - the eyebrows!
Ummm....What the crap was that?
Asimov nightmare!
zOMG!
Casper really went downhill after the TV series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casper_the_Friendly_Ghost
Baka not Baca
actually neither.
yes its baka. (or at least its really fine to write it like that)
Replacing the letter K with C is a common way of stylizing romanizations:
http://bacarobo.com/
What is wrong with the Japanese.
They have to compensate for their small... country!
I just want to say tha-
... no wait i..
have no idea what to say.. I think something just broke in my brain
.. I think I will go and have a little rest... yes..
.... restipoos.. a little nap....
I am speechless.
Oh hahaha, that actually made sense to me.
It's really pretty straightforward, the poor little robot works out too hard and its poor little arms come flying off.
And then it gets a new bout of determination, signified by angry eyebrow, and keeps going.
Now the toothbrush, either the child is really really into dental hygiene, or it's some kind of odd Japanese event swag.
No shit Sherlock.
kris: who made you ass-investigator? noob
i lol'd
That was pretty f***ed up o_0
Funny.. any but a japanese child would find this scary as hell =)
That kid probably had seem too many dismembering going around him, eventually he's got antibody to it.
I think the average american kid watches more anime than the average japanese kid, another weird thing.
Apparently the Uprising will not require arms.
Hey toothbrush kid, Come with me if you want to live!
It signifies the American Determination in the face of the current economic downturn. The harder we try, the harder it is to maintain but with even more eyebrows we can over come and the reward is dental care that is always just out of reach of our limbless bodies.
But what do I know? Besides everything!
What has America got to do with this. I doubt the Japanese were thinking about the states when they were developing this.
@ Kris120890: You fail at reading. Then again Mile did forget the obligatory /sarcasm.
As for the toothbrush I think the kid simply had it as a chew toy. It looked like he carried it around and just scratched the bridge of his nose, not picking it. Then he obviously was trying to do what every kid does and get close enough to touch something he probably wasn't supposed to touch using the toothbrush as an extension.
Thank you Mile, you made my day. Probably my month.
And no, the /sarcasm was not needed at all; you just get it or you don't, and I feel really sorry for people belonging to the latter group. Or maybe not.
wtf, lol.
wtf ftw!
omgwtfbbq.
It's shooting lasers from its arm sockets! RUN, Dean Kamen, RUN!
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That d@mn toothbrush is the only thing keeping that robot in check!
You should be thanking that kid and his high level brushing skills!!!
Not the strangest I've seen...then again being from 4chan doesn't help
kinryoku tanren(means muscle training) child robo KINTORE-Z.
He is a Mazinger-Z wannabe!
That made me cry at my desk!
whatever. I can do way more pushups than that.
But you can't do it without your arms, but THAT can.
Couldn't The Zohan do that? Or am I remembering the trailer incorrectly?