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Bionic Penguins to Destroy Humans from Water and Air

Posted April 21, 2009 2:57 PM

From Gizmodo:

Bionic penguins that travel underwater independently. Bionic flying penguins. Robotic arms made of fiberglass rods with free will. Molecubes that assemble into infinite-growing robots. All for real, as this video shows. I'm leaving the planet. Sure, it's an infomercial about this company called Festo, but it's impressive nonetheless. Like other tech companies, they are getting its inspiration from nature to create new robotic concepts, working relentlessly to create the robots that will kill us all one day. Good.

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04/21/2009 3:56 PM

Festo has been around with their videos occasionally going viral - they are one cool company.

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04/21/2009 10:56 PM

After watching the really cool video, I have only one question: "Is orientate a real word"?

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04/22/2009 8:19 AM

Yeah, along with "instantiate" and a host of horrible manglings

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04/22/2009 12:20 AM

They stole the idea from Tim burton! expect a law suit

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