Solar-powered Trilobot takes wistful stroll outdoors
By Donald Melanson 
posted May 28th 2009 6:38AM
posted May 28th 2009 6:38AM
A solar-powered robot that's fully autonomous and able to control it's own energy acquisition may seem like a frightening proposition to some. But set aside those preconceptions for a minute and take a look at the Trilobot's video debut after the break, and then try to tell us you don't want to get one, name it Buddy and love it forever.
it's all good until it starts getting cloudy, and the robot decides to use humans as a power source.
we all know how that ends.
With Neo saving the day? Not before Trinity dies.
p.s. **SPOILER**
You are on Engadget.
PS: ****Spoiler***
**Hangs head in embarrassment**
did the humans blow up the sun in the Matrix to cutoff machine's energy in the first place?
No, they just dramatically increased the cloud cover I think
I love that walky thing it does to supplement the wheel-drive. Add some sensors and such to this girl, and you have an absolutely awesome little bot!
Give it a weapon
it's!
Add Skynet
That first part is what it will look like when the minions of the robot apocalypse are eating your face off.
“You and me, we’ve been at war before either of us even existed!"
Seems to have a major problem when it runs into something in front of it. Apparently not smart enough to back up. It just sits there, turning its wheels back and forth!
Sure, it's cute with that music in the background. Someone should recut the video with dramatic music, and we'll know what we're in for.
I, for one, welcome our four-wheeled, solar-powered robotic overlords that resemble trilobites and travel to twang-y guitar music.
Hmm. Scary, but not as scary this:
"A British-built robot generates its own power by gobbling flies but it has a stinky downside - it needs human sewage as bait to catch the insects and then digest them."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2004/09/09/1195295.htm
In the future, beware of 'bots bearing ice cream, women, and gems.
cant we just get a robot that looks and behaves like fly and has a cool exoskeleton made of chitin?
or just something with an exoskeleton that looks cool and is made of something equally cool sounding?
Anything would be better than "shit shovel fly bot"
for some reason this reminds me of Wall-e
Typo: "it's own energy acquisition" --> "its own energy acquisition"
Looks lethal in that photo.
That, my friends, is a first gen Replicator...