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Category: Cephalopods • Weirdness
Posted on: November 15, 2006 12:19 PM, by PZ Myers
Japanese researchers prepare the first enlistee in the robot cephalopod legion. If we could only bring together robot cuttlefish and zombie cyborg squid, we could rule the world! Prepare to be subjugated, flimsy, limb-deficient hu-mans.
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Comments
All your (undersea) bases are belong to us.
Posted by: Paul Mannering | November 15, 2006 12:25 PM
Please tell me I'm not the only one thinking "live action hentai"!
Posted by: Blake Stacey | November 15, 2006 12:29 PM
It looks like they used a set of headers on the sides of that thing. That or somebody learned how to use a tubing bender in the middle of fabrication.
Posted by: mxracer652 | November 15, 2006 12:33 PM
Well, this is Japan we're talking about, here!
Posted by: Rick @ shrimp and grits | November 15, 2006 12:41 PM
How does it taste fried, and dipped in a soy sauce and sesame oil vinegarrette?
Posted by: Stanton | November 15, 2006 12:50 PM
cuttlefish? I'm not seeing it.
Perhaps it's the lack of cuteness.
Posted by: Evan Murdock | November 15, 2006 1:13 PM
Hmm, it's not the number of appendages, but how you use them -
just as it is not the size of your appendage, but.. well, you get the drift.
Posted by: Umilik | November 15, 2006 1:17 PM
For me at least, I looks more like the "Respectful Insolence" mascot.
Posted by: DouglasG | November 15, 2006 2:27 PM
Wow, so there is still hope out there. Good to know.
Posted by: lo | November 15, 2006 3:14 PM
I, for one, welcome our new robotic cephalopod overlords...
Posted by: Janice in GA | November 15, 2006 4:08 PM
Thought that PZ and the rest of you might get a chuckle out of this semi-topical cartoon.
Posted by: thrashbluegrass | November 15, 2006 4:15 PM
That V-6 is going to be awful loud unless those headers are attached to a muffler.
Posted by: Mooser | November 15, 2006 4:22 PM
They're taking over the world (or at least the seas off Japan)!
Robot Swims Like a Squid
Original story, with more pictures and video, here:
Squid Robot Underwater Inspector Has Unique Propulsion
Someone hurry up and build a robot sperm whale! Never mind; forget I said that. I don't want anyone siccing the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus on me.
Posted by: anomalous4 | November 15, 2006 5:37 PM
You will need to watch out for the penguins when you begin the zombie cyborg squid attack. Check the image linked:
http://www.rayarray.com/comickaze/comikaze/examples/archive_page.php?comicID=42
Posted by: Paul | November 16, 2006 7:25 AM