A Real Transformer?

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday February 12, 2006 @03:39AM from the did-he-flip-me-off-in-there dept.

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.

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Optimus, we hardly knew ye.... by eldavojohn · 2006-02-12 03:40 · Score: 5, Funny

Rumor is the next version will be a red semi + trailor and will be much more than meets the eye.
Is he also going to die 15 minutes into his first full length presentation?

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1. Re:Optimus, we hardly knew ye.... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-02-12 04:03 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  >>Is he also going to die 15 minutes into his first full length presentation?
  
  No, but I predict the server will.
  
  A Transformer robot video on frontpage of Slashdot? Poor thing never had a chance.
2. Re:Optimus, we hardly knew ye.... by Achromus · 2006-02-12 11:05 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  1. Make super-powerful Transformer robot. 2. ??? 3. Prophet!
The *other* kind of transformer. by Anonymous Coward · 2006-02-12 03:43 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
1. Re:The *other* kind of transformer. by Bing+Tsher+E · 2006-02-12 04:55 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  It's actually called an Isolation Transformer.
2. Re:The *other* kind of transformer. by iamlucky13 · 2006-02-12 05:03 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I was going to say the guy who made the original joke was a hopeless nerd, but then you had to go and make a serious response...
Well I'll be dipped. by RoffleTheWaffle · 2006-02-12 03:43 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
The French were there first. by ettlz · 2006-02-12 03:45 · Score: 5, Funny

Didn't Citroen already build one of these?
Ah, big deal by LiftOp · 2006-02-12 03:49 · Score: 5, Funny

I've got an old Honda that's transformed into a quadraped, right in the front yard.
This is a video of real robot tranforming from a.. by Idimmu+Xul · 2006-02-12 03:57 · Score: 5, Funny

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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Re:This is a video of real robot tranforming from by lordkuri · 2006-02-12 04:06 · Score: 5, Informative

yup

link