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Relentless headless dog robot spells doom for human race

By Rain Noe - March 18, 2008

in Object Culture

No, no, no, no. We thought the Snakebot was the creepiest robot we'd seen yet, but now Boston Dynamics has gone and made this thing that's giving us nightmares.

You have to see this video--this %#&*@ robot simply won't go down. Watch as the guy tries to kick it over at the 00:36 mark. Watch as it goes uphill and downhill in snow, traverses slippery ice, and leaps accurately over demarcated distances. The most disturbing thing is that once it loses its balance, like at the 1:29 mark, it frantically scrabbles to regain its footing with the grotesque urgency of a locomoting cockroach. This machine looks like it will carry out its mission at any cost. And what is its mission? Make no mistake: robots are here to replace us. Watching this video, we feel like the Incans watching the Conquistadors pulling into the harbor. via gizmodo thanks gina!

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Erin Brodersen

16 years ago

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Remember the video of the deer attacking the hunter. I can only imagine the robot in that sort of situation.

I hope that in the impending robotic take over that we will have at least made robots look a lot friendlier than this.
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Erin Brodersen

16 years ago

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Hopefully in the impending robotic take over, they will at least look a little friendlier than that.

Remember that video of the deer attacking the hunter. I can see this robot doing something like that pretty soon.
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David

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No kidding. Every time I see this thing, it gives me the willies. I always imagine it coming towards me in the dark and me emptying rounds into it, to no avail.
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Brendan Crain

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Holy sh*t. That was WAY scarier than Cloverfield.
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