They are also working on simple, mechanical tentacles that extend and contract to move the robot in a specified direction.

The sculptures that are mock-ups of the planned appearance of these robots they’re building is quite striking. The theme is organic robots.

And yes, you guessed it, they’re coming from Japan. Our future robotic overlords will come equipped for tentacle rape. The Octorapedroid!

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 at 21:35.