Ahh, what a hack (the robot, not the inventor). This article reminds me of Calvin and Hobbes' duplicator. Or that movie with Michael Keaton "like when you make a copy of a copy of a cassette."

@Preyfar: Uhg. I felt bad for Donald Sutherland, and a bit for Jamie Lee Curtis, for having their name attached to that one.

txpunk

@92BuickLeSabre: hahaha, oh man... thats too good.

Jones91

Replicators anyone?

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Nikkoli

and I so will not be able

shizik76

@Preyfar: Are you sure you're not talking about Runaway? Cause I've never seen Virus, but I've seen Runaway, and that sounds a lot like Runaway.

92BuickLeSabre

Make a different one with a camera that analyzes the surface of the body & then makes a tattoo... minus the drilling into the flesh of course :D

Neat tho!

AllThingsWireless

@Preyfar: I own that movie personally. It's pretty good, as far as movies that contain cyborgs go.

Metkis

Just outfit that with a syringe any we'll be ready to attack Gene Simmons...

hakubak

@92BuickLeSabre:
Ever see that Jamie Lee Curtis movie, Virus? Everything you ever need to know about self replicating robots and robot spiders is contained within. :)

Preyfar

@92BuickLeSabre:
this is the quality shit I expect from you. I'm still giggling like a retard. Thanks

discounteggroll

Oh no! Keep it away from the styrofoam. The army of styrofoam robots might blow around and tickle us.

GeekyNerdGuy

@92BuickLeSabre: What good is a robot that carves an ugly face in a piece of paper?

Metkis

What good is a self-replicating robot anyway, if all it does is replicate itself, because what good are two self-replicating robots anyway, if all they do is replicate themselves, because what good are four self-replicating robots anyway, if all they do is replicate themselves, because what good are eight self-replicating robots if...

92BuickLeSabre

@Nikkoli: We got plenty of time as long as we don't build our bulkheads out of styrofoam! Otherwise those P90s will destroy more than those replicators! (Ya beat me to the SG1 reference)

SigmundTheSeaMonster

Tochikoma anyone?
Yes, please.

MagnoliaBoy

@adamator: Please, that's like asking for a Big Dog without the weedeater noise.

GeekyNerdGuy

Really cool. But can they build one that doesn't make my ears bleed with the high frequency noise while it works?

adamator

MAKE ME A BICYCLE, CLOWN!

GeekyNerdGuy

Ooh ooh, make me a kitty!

thefonz101

Give this bot a can of spray paint and some suction cup feet and you'll take tagging to a whole new level.

Gann

Damn insect robots...they scare the Bejeezus outta me...

Chromeo

@frigg: It's actually what the little girl yells at Vince Vaughn when he's making balloon animals in Wedding Crashers, but yeah, bicycle clowns would be cool, I guess.

GeekyNerdGuy

@frigg:

Yea that's awesome...a damned scary insect robot that creates clowns...that's exactly something you'd find in my own personal hell...

Why not have it walk around with a baby-head too while you're at it?

Chromeo

@GeekyNerdGuy: Wouldn't you rather have it make you a "bicycle clown," you know, those clowns at the circus that ride around on stupidly tiny bicycles?

I bet it could make one of those too.

frigg

@Chromeo: One man's hell is another man's paradise. A world full of clown-making robots... THAT's the world I want to live in! (As long as there are an equal number of robots for removing said clowns from said world).

@GeekyNerdGuy: Oh! Didn't see that flick. The idea of watching Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn crash weddings for 2 hours, well, it doesn't exactly do it for me as much as a world full of robots divided into those that make clowns, and those that hunt them down and remove them from circulation.

frigg

@92BuickLeSabre:

That's what I think about most of the people I meet at the local Wal-Mart - but they keep reproducing anyway

vyrlsuntzu

#1 It's not using a laser. Which, of course, can be used to attack it's masters when their relative intelligence becomes suspect.

#2 It's not assembling the babydoll faces onto a completed robot exoskeleton. Which would scare the living shit out of anyone.

...and finally
#3 It hasn't learned to walk upside down on the ceiling with a syringe full of acid waiting for the death signal from Gene Simmons. Let's face it, until you get the Kiss of death, you aren't really enjoying robotics to it's fullest potential.

FrankenPC

This thing needs a laser dazzler.

GeekyNerdGuy

Umm... I for one welcome our new... no, I can't do it. I tried but I just can't.

A3rd.Zero

Next...brain surgery.

We are sooo screwed.

LoganSix

We need to contact the Asgard, now.

NumberFiveIsAlive

@Chromeo: Funny you should mention this. The guy that built the robot did the animatronics for Harry Potter. They did the giant spider and the Blast-Ended Skrewt, which didn't make it into the movies.

Barry99705

ehh ill be concerned when the thing starts walking and carving holes in wood floors and such... even then its just a nuisance...

rebelj12a

Replicators, here we come.

Klappstuhl

Very cool. I love the creativity. Useful? Not at this early stage. It's way slower than the Craftsman Compucarve and not as strong, but it WALKS! How cool is that? I would try a stronger motor for more carve/cut/drill options like the Compucarve, which would also speed it up. Since it walks, well... it'd beat the Compucarve hands down.

And being home-made, it wins points anyway!!!

hnkelley

This is how the face on mars were made!
[anomalyhunters.com]

stoleriko

So THAT'S what made the face on Mars...

bodabing

Or, check this out: http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome

SundariImber

What would make this more impressive would be a vacuum cleaner attachment - then the robot wouldn,t need the guy with the hose

BADPOOKEY