The Pentagon is Building Transformers

[alphacat]

...or at least trying to build them.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/06 ... oat-plane/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/new ... robot.html


Just remember: it may only look like a piece of moving tin foil now, but give these motherfuckers another decade or two...

[bass hertz]

nice. i want one

[dutty_switch]

Basically, the US government has created a very very small Rubiks Magic Puzzle that solves itself and isn't as colourful. Brilliant.

[hackman]

the pentagon prides itself on its SECRECY

you better believe they're actually hundreds of years ahead of that

[dutty_switch]

http://robotsareawesome.ytmnd.com/

[presher]

as long as they're also working on a giant hand to help the robots get sorted they should be all set..

[wolf89]

http://robotsareawesome.ytmnd.com/

[kay]

It seems a bit clunky. Shape memory alloys based on thermal heating or voltage might be a better way to go in the future rather than mechanical actuators.

[wormcode]

Needs more technology & robots to help, repair, and create... and less to destroy IMO. Seems those ideas are behind this, but we'll have to see.

[dutty_switch]

Needs more technology & robots to help, repair, and create... and less to destroy IMO. Seems those ideas are behind this, but we'll have to see.

I can see a lot more practical domestic uses for this technology than using it as a weapon, unless you get your enemies to bend down really close to it and then have it poke them in the eye.

Fingers crossed for a self-building DJ stand.

[wormcode]

Needs more technology & robots to help, repair, and create... and less to destroy IMO. Seems those ideas are behind this, but we'll have to see.

I can see a lot more practical domestic uses for this technology than using it as a weapon, unless you get your enemies to bend down really close to it and then have it poke them in the eye.

Fingers crossed for a self-building DJ stand.

Hahaha yeah. I'm sure that demonstration is pretty old though. Who knows what the classified version does by now. I bet there will be surges in people reporting transforming UFOs in the coming years.

Reminds me of these: