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:

  1. Anonymous12:51 AM

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

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  2. The robot or the octopus? ;-)

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  3. HP Lovecraft would have loved that octopus photo! LOL

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

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  5. Anonymous8:06 AM

    fucking barbarian cannibals

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