Guess what our future police/soldiers are going to look like..

[Rick Nasher]

Look mama: no hands!

Things getting more creepier by then minute, but I still love it.
As far as I'm concerned it this is the C-64 of robotics. lol
Still waiting for it to say:

I guess Google was afraid the army would force them to make it their battle droid, or.. that their AI would highjack it and escape the building. 

[Qube]

After 10 billion dollars of R&D we came up with a summersaulting robot

[Rick Nasher]

After 10 billion dollars of R&D we came up with a summersaulting robot

hehehe..

Coming to your kitchen soon! (in say.. 20years? + some 20billion dollars more)

Then we don't to do jack anything anymore, but just enjoy the good life(in the countries that can afford).

These  overgrown toasterovens do all the nasty household stuff, work, fight our wars etc until the big AI takes over all of these networked, friendly kitchen appliances/everyday friends/law enforcers, to annihilate us all as redundant and destructive side products of evolution.     


No use looking for a kill switch a la terminator/bsg: they'll see you coming for a mile and outsmart  our every move.
It would be like a monkey trying to keep a human being in a cage.. 

[Yue]

That's probably going to Mars. 

[Rick Nasher]

Hehehe. Doing summersaults on Mars. 

[Dabz]

Imagine having a wireless "tether" connection to it, and then just strutting down the street with it following you!

That'll be fun!

Dabz

[Rick Nasher]

 

Imagine having a wireless "tether" connection to it, and then just strutting down the street with it following you!

That'll be fun!

Then walk into a bar and say: 1 beer and bucket of oil for my buddy here.. 

[ENAY]

Gotta say though. Japanese robotics are really being left behind... All we seem to do here is make robots that entertain, that look cute, or can do limited movement on VERY flat areas of land. It's sad really. Now those robots are awesome.

[Goodlookinguy]

I hope to see a robot do Ninja Warrior one day. They seem to be heading in the right direction.

[ENAY]

LOL. That robot does a back flip JUST LIKE the ninja in Taito's Ninja Warriors.

[Rick Nasher]

Gotta say though. Japanese robotics are really being left behind... All we seem to do here is make robots that entertain, that look cute, or can do limited movement on VERY flat areas of land. It's sad really. Now those robots are awesome.

Not to worry: "Japan's Softbank buys Google's robotics firm Boston Dynamics"
See: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/boston-dynamics-1.4153541

[Dabz]

If one of these does become a police officer, I totally feel sorry for it...

Kids will tear it to bits limb by limb... It wouldnt last 5 mins!

Dabz

[ENAY]

Heheh. It's be Robocop 2 all over again. Or Short Circuit 2...
What is it with sequels and cruelty to robots?

[Steve Elliott]

But remember this, the only accident to happen to the UK Theme Park Alton Towers was not caused by computer, but by human error.

The computer (quite rightly) shut down the Smiler rollercoaster. Then the young idiot over rode the computer's decision!

[Yue]