Robopocalypse: Goodbye Wales
After watching the following video I may have to move up my estimated start date for the Great Robohuman War, from 2058 to 2009.
Meet Jules. The biologically designed robot who only wants to do one thing: obliterate a large part of England.
Jules is the first android that can mimic the facial expressions and lip movements of human beings. The evil monster observes people’s expressions through its video camera eyes and then converts the image into digital commands. Those commands are then sent to the 34 tiny electronic motors underneath the robot’s rubber skin (which is hilariously called Frubber, short for flexible rubber).
All this happens in real time with no delay. So if Jules ever decides to go through with his little plan of mass destruction, we won’t have those precious few seconds to react while he boots up.
The project is called “Human-Robot Interaction,” and was created by the blood-thirsty lunatics at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory in England. It certainly is reassuring to know that one of the first projects studying human-robot interactions ended up creating a robot who wants to destroy Wales. Talk about starting off on the wrong foot, robots. Jerks.
Thankfully, right now Jules is just a head with no body. So he can’t come after us. But I’m sure it’s just a matter of time before some idiot slaps good ‘ol Jules on top of one of those hexapods.
(via Daily Mail)
