Yet more indications of humanity’s impending destruction at the cold mechanised hands of killer robots have surfaced over the last few days.
They’re already outdoing us at athletic feats: Darpa has funded a robot which can leap over obstacles more than 7.5m high thanks to a piston-actuated “leg”, while Sandia National Laboratories has been showing off some grasshopper inspired mechanical critters of their own.
Soon, even your favourite drinking den won’t be safe, thanks to Deep Green, a pool playing robot which is already “better-than-amateur level” (check out the link for some cool augmented reality stuff too).
There is some slight consolation in that even your average couch dweller could probably still run rings around Hajime Sakamoto‘s football playing robot. Still, it’s probably only a matter of time until he achieves his dream of “building Gundam” though
To avoid a premature and painful death dished out by a blood thirsty automaton hell-bent on eliminating the human race, you could always shack up with one first, after all, David Levy thinks shagbots are just round the corner.
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