Friday, January 25, 2008

Robovie droid helps lost shoppers

The Osaka-based Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATR) has developed a crowd-monitoring humanoid robot that recognizes when people are lost and helps them find their way.


If this freaky dude doesn't trigger buried memories of alien abduction I'm not sure what will. Click for pictures.





Pink Tentacle also brings us this uncommonly gorgeous shot of ghostly octopi "hanging around." (I'm waiting for the Halloween costume plans.)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'd be tempted to seriously vandalize that bugger....

Mac said...

The robot or the octopus? ;-)

Nick Redfern said...

HP Lovecraft would have loved that octopus photo! LOL

Mac said...

Yeah, that's got "Lovecraft" written all over it!

Anonymous said...

fucking barbarian cannibals