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Day of the Robotic Tentacle

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the of-course-they-will-do-a-sequel dept.

holy_calamity writes "New Scientist is reporting on a robotic tentacle developed thanks to funding from military agency DARPA. From the video it looks to have a lot of potential, I can almost feel it fastening around my ankle right now."

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  1. Forget about the army... by Olix · · Score: 5, Funny

    Think about the implications for the Sex industry!

  2. Tentacles indeed by zephc · · Score: 5, Funny

    DARPA: taking hentai in brave, new directions. Your tax dollars at work.

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    "I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
  3. whoa whoa whoa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    don't tell Japan! think of the children!

    1. Re:whoa whoa whoa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      don't tell Japan! think of the children!

      Oh they will. They will.

  4. Couldn't have called it a "robotic elephant trunk" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We couldn't have called it a "robotic elephant trunk", could we? Never mind that it more resembles an elephant's trunk than a tentacle, noooo. Never mind that TFA also mentioned that resemblance.

    Oh no, we had to use the term that will cause 99.9987% of the posts to fixate upon the hentai aspects of this.

  5. Just the beginning by ch-chuck · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's just a step toward the robotic cthulu.

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    try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
  6. Hmmm.... by flyweight_of_fury · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that a Robotic tentacle or toothpase ?

    ...I smell a lawsuit coming...

  7. Re:simple math by Red+Flayer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Must be some kind of fuzzy math you got there. Sorry to disprove you, but:

    Robot Tentacle + Tentacle Pr0n = Tentacle (Robot + Pr0n)

    Since we all know that Octopi have 8 tentacles, lets go ahead and substitute.

    Robot Tentacle + Tentacle Pr0n = 8 (Robot + pr0n)

    We can, of course, substitute I for Robot, leaving us with

    8 (I + pr0n)

    Since that's a capital I, we know it represents an integer, and not an imaginary number. Given that the Romans were into tentacle pr0n, we can assume that's a Roman numeral, and substitute accordingly.

    8 (1 + pr0n)

    Now, we all know the emoticon 8(1 represents an unhappy glasses-wearing person with a scruffy asymmetrical beard, or an unhappy nerd. So via substitution we have:

    Tenticle Robot + Tenticle Pr0n = An unhappy nerd + pr0n

    As we all know, this is a logical fallacy, since a nerd with pr0n is never unhappy.

    I figured, if you were going to posit that ax + ay = axy, I might as well take the fuzzy math a little farther.

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    "Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
  8. Re:As a pastafarian... by scooter.higher · · Score: 5, Funny

    But this is no mockery! This is an homage... a show of support from the scientific community that they too have been touched by His Noodly Appendage.

    They just wanted to be touched more often :-)

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    Ramen