Sweet Germans, Now We're Fucked

Well I was over at Wired and reading about all kinds of geek shit when I stumbled onto an atricle about a robot that can catch a ball and make coffee. Fucking Germans are working on the first robot in the line that will lead to our destruction. Oh sure now it's fucking cute when "Rollin' Justin" can catch a ball. But wait until five years from now when he can hold and fire a gun. Sweet Germany, real fucking sweet.



From Wired:

Developed by German Aerospace firm DLR, Rollin’ Justin has been programmed and outfitted with some 84 sensors spread out over its massive exoskeletal frame. (Fun fact: DLR is actually German for “Cyberdyne Systems.”) Justin boasts an onboard 3-D camera system for analyzing points in space, and there are 43 joints throughout its body that help enable movement in performing any number of complex activities, including seven in each arm and 12 in each hand. (Thankfully, that’s still less than a quarter of what humans possess.)

What’s all that mobility for? Well, these intrepid German engineers have enabled Justin with enough programming know-how that it can, for example, operate a self-service coffee machine or catch a ball thrown its way.

Oh, you heard right. Justin has a response time of 5 milliseconds and its onboard prediction capability figures the speed and trajectory of the ball to guess where it will be within a 2-centimeter area. Justin’s success rate for catching balls is now over 80 percent.

Bow to Rollin' Justin

This is some crazy shit. Some humans can;t even catch a ball with 80% success. I'm telling you, I'm not an end-of-the-world-tomorrow type. But this thing is just waiting until they build a few more, then its Terminator or iRobot or any other robot apocalypse movie in five years. I'm already stocking up on guns and RPG's and tanks and shit. You won't catch me unprepared you ball-catching fuck.