Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Robot attacks Japanese Prime Minister
Robot attacks Japanese Prime Minister
Japan’s first mall-patrolling security robot, the T63 Artemis, took an instant dislike to Japan’s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi yesterday. A simple meet-and-greet experience was obviously too much for the batty bot, which launched a smokescreen on contact. T63_artemisThe robot has been patrolling the mall for a year now, disturbing the doughnut dunking of real rent-a-cops, with high-pitched alarms whenever it spots ‘suspicious behaviour’. So, either the strain of meeting a Japanese icon was too much or Koizumi was spotted with his hand in the Pick n’ Mix. Mammoth_project2Either way, it’s really just as well the PM didn’t meet the 30ft tall fire-breathing Tokyo destroyer
(pictured) or the king of them all, Robosaurus.
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Wasn't there a movie like this? Westworld? Batman? I, Robot (or, as we fondly refer to it, "CGI, Robot")?
And I thought *I* needed sleep. 'night.
Japan’s first mall-patrolling security robot, the T63 Artemis, took an instant dislike to Japan’s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi yesterday. A simple meet-and-greet experience was obviously too much for the batty bot, which launched a smokescreen on contact. T63_artemisThe robot has been patrolling the mall for a year now, disturbing the doughnut dunking of real rent-a-cops, with high-pitched alarms whenever it spots ‘suspicious behaviour’. So, either the strain of meeting a Japanese icon was too much or Koizumi was spotted with his hand in the Pick n’ Mix. Mammoth_project2Either way, it’s really just as well the PM didn’t meet the 30ft tall fire-breathing Tokyo destroyer
(pictured) or the king of them all, Robosaurus. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wasn't there a movie like this? Westworld? Batman? I, Robot (or, as we fondly refer to it, "CGI, Robot")?
And I thought *I* needed sleep. 'night.
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