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You know you do.

We get this:

http://www.johnny-five.com/layout/newlogo.jpg

But we want this:

http://www.pinktentacle.com/images/terminator_2_large.jpg

or even this!

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/5493/266530-battletech.jpg

Sigh ...

Johnny-5 Alive!

Anyone else find it funny that from all the "sci-fi" films of the 20th century, the lighthearted comedy Short Circuit had the most realistic combat robots?

Yo chief, it was Johnny 5, not Number 5. http://www.johnny-five.com/

Anyone else think this image of the new robot/soldier looks like Johnny 5?

In the movie Johnny 5 had Apple hardware... does this real one perhaps have a G5?

Is it running Darwin (insert darwinism joke here)?

It could broadcast what it's eyes/camera's see via a QuickTime Stream. It's voice can be done using text to speach. It can even sing (better than the movie) thanks to iTunes.

Oh boy. I bet I'm right!

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I wonder if someone has case modded thier segway to look like Johnny Five!

yeah-
but the real crunch comes when modern weapons become smart enough for self preservation.......or worse still - pacifists...

;)

No, his name is Johnny Wi-Five...

If a CPU can understand your code, so can a human. The solution to this problem are licenses, not obfuscators.

Now, I've had my comments in this vein modded "Interesting", but the "Funny" mods usually arrive soon after. It's always good for a laugh, +2 Interesting on a robotics story where I link to a Short Circuit page.

But this takes the cake. +5 Interesting for a comment that says [spoiler alert?] that the best way to make a program secure from reverse engineering is to make it unrunnable. And that the licenses we love to hate are the solution.

Great post, funny as all get-out. I had to re-read it to get it, which made it even better.

I'm glad the poster got some karma points, but it's time to add some Funny mods to the mix now. Put... down... the... crakpipe...

Please don't disassemble me!

Johnny 5 *may* be alive, especially if you follow this link

I found some fascinating footage of similar tests conducted by the military, with not very promising results.

[bandwidth-friendly Google cache]

These new gadgets are all well and good, just don't let them be outside during a thunder storm.

If they want Hollywood ones, the list is long..
Gort (from "The Day the Earth Stood Still")
Johnny Five (from "Short Circuit")
Half the cast of "The Black Hole"
Any of the Star Wars ones...
Plus the evil one from "Saturn V",
Logan's Run,
Buck Rogers,
Battlestar Galactica
and so on...

The public will recognize those.. I doubt there are many (if any?) non-fictitious robots that the general public could name or recognize.

Or Johnny 5!