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Have you guys seen this Rubik’s cube-solving robot? RuBot II is pretty amazing. You hand the robot a cube, it holds it up to its eyes/camera, scans the cube, and then solves it while chatting away. I’m pretty sure solving a Rubik’s cube is step 84 of 100 on the path to complete robot world domination. Read more about RuBot II here.
OK that creeped me out just a little more than I expected.
posted by Johnny Cat on 10-12-2006 at 11:42 am
Man, the thing is scary! Couldn’t they have made him cute and fun? YIKES!
posted by Marika on 10-12-2006 at 12:48 pm
Yeah, especially the little lightning-in-the-mouth effect when it talks.
Also, do you think the sound effects were coming from the robot? If so, may I suggest the Jeopardy theme?
posted by Bj on 10-12-2006 at 2:37 pm