Video: Freaky deaky Einstein robot
posted at 10:21 pm on October 2, 2006 by Allahpundit
It’s old, but there is a news hook — it was here in NYC for three days this weekend as part of the NextFest festival.
My first thought upon seeing it? How cool it’ll be to shoot these things in Westworld. My second thought? Sex robots. Of course.
What can I say? I’m an American.
More details here. Nightmarish cyborg demo video follows.
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Man, I missed NextFest! I was at last year’s in Chicago, and it was a mind trip.
Bryan on October 2, 2006 at 10:25 PM
Yikes, that thing is a little freaky.
mesablue on October 2, 2006 at 10:28 PM
Is that a Honda Asimo underneath Einstein’s dome?
Kid from Brooklyn on October 2, 2006 at 10:30 PM
I’ll never forgive you for this AP…
Seriously though, I’ve watched some shows on these cyborgs being developed… Crazy/cool stuff, but I can’t say I don’t fear a world like the one in iRobot or the Matrix (of course, we could be in the Matrix right now, but we’d never know).
RightWinged on October 2, 2006 at 10:40 PM
In the face it looks like a next-gen version of the borg they had at last year’s Fest. That one couldn’t walk, so you’d sit next to it in this little house-like set and have a live conversation with it. It was very creepy, with a little side of cool if you’re a geek.
Bryan on October 2, 2006 at 10:40 PM
Great…just freakin great…..
Iran’s building the bomb, but the Japs are building physicists…..
We’re doomed……
HerrMorgenholz on October 2, 2006 at 11:03 PM
Dude, how do you look at that thing and think sex robot? They had one they showed last year that was only a waist up model, but she could talk and was just pretty as could be. I could sort of understand slipping down that dork fantasy rabbit hole after seeing her but not the one above. As to the fellow who mentioned the matrix, a pox on your house sir. I detest that trilogy. Except for drew barrymore being dragged on around by wire like some kind of bloated pinata during her fight scenes in the almost equally abysmal Charlies Angels, the matrix movies have some of the lamest fight sequences I’ve ever had to sit through. All that was missing was some animated frames to announce each blow with a ‘spiff’, ‘pow’ or ‘bopp’. And who could forget the characters, such as the effeminate annoying twins who turn into insubstantial green vampires and spoke in the third person. Why? Because it was cool. God, I hated those movies.
austinnelly on October 2, 2006 at 11:16 PM
Freaky good work , but ‘My name is ARBERT EINSTEIN…’
still a little prob w/ the “L”s over there in Japan…
shooter on October 2, 2006 at 11:17 PM
Oh, I think we’re better off than you think… If Bush Co. could pull of 9/11 undetected (an impossible task) then we can certainly do a lot more.
RightWinged on October 2, 2006 at 11:17 PM
I thought Einstein was taller than that.
B Moe on October 2, 2006 at 11:34 PM
Looks as if we have a new democrat constituency ripe for the picking. Get them proof of residency, registered to vote, programed, grease their
plamsgear boxes, then watch the results pile in.Heck, there won’t even be any more need for the regressives to come up with actual ideas to
lie aboutrun on.DannoJyd on October 3, 2006 at 2:05 AM
heh
You want freeaky, go to realdoll.com You know some geek is thinking of ways to merge one of them with the asimove exoskalaton system…At least Allah’s dreams will be fullfilled :)
In terms of robotology, their have been great strides in prosthetic limbs. MIT developed a pretty accurate hand not to long ago. Between robotics and the newer bio feedback systems they are developing we may be looking at “The 6 million dollar man” soon. (Have to adjust for inflation though)
Wyrd on October 3, 2006 at 8:00 AM
Is it time again for my usual contribution? Eh, why not, since RightWinged brought up Matrix and austinnelly panned it….
“Hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability.”
There. I feel better now. ;o) ‘Cept for the willies I got from that Albot.
tickleddragon on October 3, 2006 at 11:58 AM
After I got over the willies I realized he just neede dthe bathroom.
Priest on October 3, 2006 at 12:32 PM
I like it.
Forget tickle me elmo….
Tickle me Einstein!
Kini on October 3, 2006 at 1:06 PM