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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.
Fossil fuels, electric, bio-diesel, hydrogen, ethanol...energon?
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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?
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http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/02/5351/
Quite frankly. Im not impressed.
Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
The Japanese fixation on robots runs deep and many mecha series (like the Yuusha (Brave) series) are all based on transformable mecha. If you think of how useful it could be in some situations it does make sense though.
Lets say you're in a destroyed city area. Trying to get around on wheels would be difficult in some situations (large walls and such), transforming you could climb over them.
They could also develope this into a plane, so when it lands it could transform and dock in a hanger instead of holding run way space. Or give it a large gun and have a military vechile.
Lots of uses for transformable mecha, just got to look at how ineffective our little boxs on wheels are.
I like muppets.
yup
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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.
No, not every can go and make such things else we would have seem them already. They have been drawn for many many years, but nothing has been actually built. It is hard to get the parts in the right place and to have it balance itself etc etc etc.
/. and give the plans too.
These 'toys' have a strong practical commerical future. High road speed robots than can climb over rough terrain if needed. Weapons systems. Helpers.
Please go fetch your Lego and build one for all of us on
my $0.02
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Take-off every
Not sure if this is the same site that the article links to (since the link in the article seems to be /.ed), but this was posted in Seibertron.com a couple days ago:
http://robot-fan.net/spot/spot067.html
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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.
However, bipedal designs are ineffective. We'd give them four or six legs for stability.
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He was making fun of Mr. "connah0047 (850585)" for missing the exact same joke at the end of the story submitter's entry, and thus, making himself look ADD. I found it quite witty. Captain Obvious should pay you a visit, methinks.
Nobody's gay for Mole-Man.
Obviously it's some kind of technology demonstrator
Wow! And all of those are able to drive and walk under their own power, too! Oh wait, they're not?
This poo is cold.
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.
Bipedal design is a lot better than almost any other when you need to operate in thight spots, since it occupies very little area (stand with your feet together, and see how small area they actually cover). A four-limber bipedal design can also use the arms for manipulation or, if neccessary, as locomotive helpers.
Remember, being able to stand on two feet doesn't mean that you can't use more if the situation warrants.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.