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A Real Transformer?
mshiltonj writes "This is a video of real robot tranforming from a vehicle to a biped and back to a vehicle. It's some Japanese technology demonstration." Rumor is the next version will be a red semi + trailor and will be much more than meets the eye.
My work here is dung.
They'll have my attention when they make Voltron
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What do you call an AC transformer with the same number of loops on both sides? ...
A deceptacon.
I heard this joke in my high school physics class, and it still makes me chuckle today.
Wow. You know what, now I want to do this to my station wagon. 1986 Ford Country Squire. Man, forget spinners, forget neon, forget hydraulic shocks. I'll be all like Optimus Prime up in this bee-yatch, just you wait 'n see.
Didn't Citroen already build one of these?
I've got an old Honda that's transformed into a quadraped, right in the front yard.
Was anybody else reminded of the Transformers when they saw this? LOL.
Fossil fuels, electric, bio-diesel, hydrogen, ethanol...energon?
$sys$droids
No, it's a link to a shitty wordpress blog whoring hits that couldn't take it and blew up in a crash of flames.
Does anyone have a link to the actual video?
The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
Watch as TFA server 'transforms' itself into a bubbling pile of metal and plastic. Amazing!
spoonerize "magic trackpad"
This is nothing compared to free robot sex from sexbot 2.0.
I figured maybe this would be an interesting discussion of the relative merits of torroidal versus laminated iron cores.
But it's just another gen-x kiddie toy discussion.
You guys need to get over your nostalgia for all that junk.
You mean, aside from the fact that the title the article says "A Real Transformer" and the summary contains a reference to the Autobot leader Optimus Prime? I wouldn't have thought of that one! Thank you, Captain Obvious.
That's because they didn't buy a computer that was capable of transforming into a real Web server.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
I eagerly await the link to your personal work on a transforming robot so we can see your progress.
Obviously it's some kind of technology demonstrator
No diassemble!
Where did the trailer go when Optimus Prime transformed into the robot? It simply disappeared! When he transforms back into the truck, it appears out of nowhere and attaches to him.