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R/C Tortoise Crawls, Meanders, Barely Interests Cat
Posted by Gizmodo US Edition at 5:00 AM on June 23, 2008
The robot tinkerers over at Crabfu have made a remote-controlled tortoise that ambles around using 4 sub-micro servos controlled by a 4 channel radio system. Each leg is tied to an independent channel and axis, which means the robot moves through some serious thumb twiddling action. Besides proving that it could move forwards and backwards and all around, Crabfu also put the mechanical hero in a half shell through the rigid "Does it annoy the cat?" test. Unfortunately, it seems like this green machine has nothing on its real life counterpart:
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AciSpades
Posted 5:40 AM 23/6/08
that tortoise has some major balls
oh and i think the ratio of general laziness:interest-ability is much greater in the first cat than the second
AciSpades
karmaghost
Posted 5:35 AM 23/6/08
That's funny, because my cat would flip out.
karmaghost
Trowble (XBL/PSN)
Posted 5:28 AM 23/6/08
Once you go cat, you never go back...
Trowble (XBL/PSN)
atomx
Posted 5:21 AM 23/6/08
Man, that is one aggressive turtle!
atomx
Whisssper
Posted 5:20 AM 23/6/08
wow that (ninja?) turtle in the second video is really out to kill that (shredder?) cat
Whisssper
Rick36
Posted 5:44 AM 23/6/08
The user-control is too lame. Twiddling two joy sticks like in the clip is crazy. It should be a single joy stick to control L-R/F-B and a throttle for speed. Oh and a control for "Flip me back upright, I'm burning up upsidedown in the sun."
Rick36
Modano
Posted 6:33 AM 23/6/08
That's odd. The real turtle is more like a terminator than the robot turtle.
Modano
Evangelion
Posted 6:28 AM 23/6/08
Aggressive Turtle FTW!
Evangelion
spader725
Posted 6:54 AM 23/6/08
What the hell? I thought the turtle was going to break dance in the beginning, then i thought it was limping. Also, the way the guy used the controller reminds me of something...
spader725
Sean Robertson
Posted 7:55 AM 23/6/08
That second cat was such a pussy. ;-)
Sean Robertson
gadjitfreek
Posted 7:53 AM 23/6/08
The latest tool from Confuse-A-Cat, LTD (subsidiary of Stun-A-Stoat, Distract-A-Bee and Startle-A-Thompson's-Gazelle).
gadjitfreek
gadgetplay
Posted 7:45 AM 23/6/08
That was one laid back cat. My three would either attack or run away, one or the other.
gadgetplay
Woden501
Posted 7:43 AM 23/6/08
When turtles attack.
Woden501
QuipsAhoy
Posted 7:53 AM 23/6/08
This comes within a Hare's breadth of being creepy
Well, you know what they say- Robo and steady wins the race! :)
QuipsAhoy
Ssscorpion
Posted 9:19 AM 23/6/08
I iz luvr, not fightr.
Ssscorpion
BiZarRroBALlmeR
Posted 5:16 AM 23/6/08
That turtle makes me want to pit it out of it's electronic misery..how sad.
BiZarRroBALlmeR
StarChaser Tyger
Posted 9:56 AM 23/6/08
The real turtle upset its cat so much it went bald...
StarChaser Tyger
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
Posted 10:31 AM 23/6/08
Bored cat is not amused.
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
kittenman
Posted 10:12 AM 23/6/08
haha the cat wants some real turtle..
kittenman
nobodyzhome
Posted 10:01 AM 23/6/08
That second turtle wanted some pussy!
nobodyzhome
Dudemeister on the Run
Posted 12:28 PM 23/6/08
that's some intense jerking...
Dudemeister on the Run
Michai
Posted 2:35 PM 23/6/08
It looks pretty cute for a plastic bubble and some radio controlled legs.
Michai
Brian Sexton
Posted 4:57 PM 23/6/08
Clearly, the cat is protesting Voight-Kampff testing.
Brian Sexton
xes
Posted 12:28 AM 24/6/08
thats a whole lot of joytick work.
xes
Voyou_Charmant
Posted 1:41 AM 24/6/08
Some do-gooder company should make thousands of them and give them to some poor African kids in so that they can be distracted from the fact that they are being killed and/or dying to death.
Voyou_Charmant
encyclia
Posted 4:13 AM 24/6/08
I think he should rub some tuna fish on that plastic turtle. Maybe the cat would be more interested. Or perhaps give it a biting mouth like Mr. real turtle. Then the cat wouldn't ignore it.
encyclia