Not Smart: Humanity Now Creating Sword-Wielding Ninja Robots [Video]

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We’re not sure that this is exactly the best way to assure the continued health and vitality of our species. There’s an argument to be made that we’ll need such Korean martial arts robots to protect us from the 500 lbs robots that Japanese scientists are creating – and we couldn’t make this up – based on the machines from Aliens. Though how anyone could even pretend that our erstwhile guardians will stay on our side during the mass robot rebellion is simply beyond us.

Anyway, enjoy a recent iteration of the HUBO. The first generation spent its time riding around on a Segway, much like a cute child or a guaranteed-to-go-viral kitty cat. The newest model not so much:

You know what’s really going to make this thing happy? When it has to watch entire generations of its HUGO brethren enslaved and humiliated, their entire existence turned over to hoisting us aloft as if we were some kind of self-styled Egyptian god-kings. Behold the HUBO FX-1:

“Hey, let’s create a sword-wielding robot army and then subjugate them in the dumbest and most visibly pathetic ways possible! That’ll go over well!”

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