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Homebrewed Robot Exoskeleton In Alaska
museumpeace writes "CNET has an article about a robotic exoskeleton ginned up by tinkerer from Alaska There are a few cool pictures. The audacity of Mr. Owens project, if you believe the article, compares to the efforts of the old
Home Brew Computer Club when compared to the work of GE or
Toyota. Inspiration here comes more from sci-fi and video games than from industrial competition. The article is a good roundup of MECHA related developments, some of which sprang from DARPA money, so I am glad at least a few of my tax dollars are having some real geek fun."
I thought they found an ancient robot skeleton buried under the ice or something, it's been a long week.
Well I for one, welcome our new Alaskan Mecha overlords.
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Now THAT would be cool.
it gets lonely in Alaska. :-)
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I hereby demand a battle royale to the death between the homebrewed robot exoskelton and this guy.
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Oh great, put the robots in the place where we can't live. They'll multiply... then they'll develope new, improved A.I. They will take over the economy with their new hoverdrive technology... We won't know if it is us or them who'll attack first-- I just know we're gonna have to scortch the sky because of this.
Electrons are free; it is moving them that becomes expensive.
To build an operational mecha as a hobby is one thing.
To build it outside in the friggin Alaskan winter... well, there's only one word for that:
OTAKU!!!
(which, by the way, is what is on my housemate's vanity plate, so I speak with first-hand knowlege)
Someone had to do it.
This is the beginning I tell you. We must destroy SkyNet while we still can!
Ah, the irony there would be...
that that is is that that is not is not
The things men do when there are not enough women around. I guess it keeps his hands from going crazy on those long alaskan nights.
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From the looks of it, that thing should have no problem converting to a big-rig, thus being the best of both worlds!
It is obvious that this was not designed by rogue chicken scientists. It is nowhere near sleak enough.
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Yeah but can a tank climb a building and snatch helicopters out of the air like king kong?
If /. was imitating FARK, the article would have been described as "Man designs mecha; will crush cars, find Sarah Connor."
...you lose your turn.
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If you build it standing up, it can be built from the ground up - create the feet, attach the legs, then the torso, etc.
EUREKA!
THAT is what Voltron was trying to teach us! "Form feet and legs! Form arms and body! And then form the head!" Given Earth's current level of technology, this is the only sequence that will permit us to construct giant space combat robots!
The dilemma, now, is to determine the motives of the mysterious entities that sent us message. Are we to build giant space robots to protect ourselves against mutual enemies? Or are they trying to trick us into violating a now-forgotten treaty (one imposed on ancient cultures banning earthlings from building combat robots), thereby giving them the legal basis for a pre-emptive strike against us?
I goth my thung thuck thoo the thoot.