Article 39437 Fighting robots, as fast as the eye can see

Fighting robots, as fast as the eye can see

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Rob Beschizza
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If the last you saw of fighting wheeled robots was Robot Wars, well, things have moved on in the last few years! Check out these single-minded sumobots, as fast as the eye can see and ruthlessly optimized to their purpose.

The video was shot/compiled by Robert McGregor. Here's more:

https://twitter.com/ID_R_McGregor/status/877050984127713281

With the slower, more implicitly purposeful Boston Dynamics bots, there are usually two responses: firstly, "holy shit!", and secondly, "something something welcome our new robot overlords." Their resemblance to mammal forms is both appealing and unnerving.

But here there is only "holy shit!" These lightning-fast, plainly unlovable little fellas are a good reminder of what the reality will be: the same overlords as before, but wielding weapons so tiny and fast that you won't even see them coming.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MW0mDZysxc

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