Real life Transformers (Soon)?

[Shadow]

I found this on Seibertron.com and thought it would be cool to post. Got to love science and nano-tec. WOW!!!


Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 7:09PM CDT
UK based The Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/) has reported (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=532534&in_page_id=1965) a rather interesting article on their site. According to their article, Brittish scientists have taken the first step in producing real-life, shape changing robots with Artificial Intelligence.

The experiment will cost 4.6 million brittish pounds (aprox. 8 million US Dollars/ 5.5 million Euro). Each individual robot will be about the size of a sugar cube, but like the gestalt combiners in Transformers, they can link together to form bigger robots. The idea is that these Transformers could aid in medical applications, space exploration and even search and rescue missions. It is estimated that these robots could be put to use in as little as 5 years from now.

"The robots have functionality on their own, but they can also combine together or adapt and change as the situation requires. The individual robots won't change physically, but they will adapt and evolve their functionality. Once the robots come together they will be more versatile - like a colony of cells such as those found in a jelly fish or a sponge. The different robots will co-operate to create the larger organism. In a sponge even if there is damage to some parts, the overall organism still survives. In this way the artificial robotic organisms might in theory become self-configuring, self-healing and self-optimising from both hardware and software perspectives".

[guitarded]

Cool!!! Will they have that awesome transforming sound?!!;)

[Trailbreaker]

Oh c'mon, nanobots? I want a really, really, real transformer, one that can turn into a car.

Lets just hope nanotechology doesn't evolve to the castastrophic "grey goo" scenarior.

[Shadow]

Oh c'mon, nanobots? I want a really, really, real transformer, one that can turn into a car.

Lets just hope nanotechology doesn't evolve to the castastrophic "grey goo" scenarior. Well the Transformers in the movie are based on a complex form of nano-tec... who knows, if this works, its just the start before something bigger comes alonge. And you know the military will have their hands all in the cookie jar. Shit they are already re-tooling the military to operate without human operations. Its going to go one of two ways... Transformers or Terminator. Either way we lose:eek:

[Trailbreaker]

Well the Transformers in the movie are based on a complex form of nano-tec... who knows, if this works, its just the start before something bigger comes alonge. And you know the military will have their hands all in the cookie jar. Shit they are already re-tooling the military to operate without human operations. Its going to go one of two ways... Transformers or Terminator. Either way we lose:eek:

Maybe we will be transformers one day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism
It's cool, yet scary at the same time.

[Dinobot3992]

God, I hope not. I don't want to see the human reace become binded with machinery. But back on the main subject, if it were possible for mechanical creatures to shift shape, as this project in Britain suggests. Then does that suggest that larger, more complex alien versions of themselves coulcd exist?

[sora]

Maybe we will be transformers one day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism
It's cool, yet scary at the same time.
Leaving aside the ethical aspect, the capability enhancement of human brain is likely becoming reality in the not so distant future.
I and my writing partner often talk it'd be so convenient if we could share untyped ideas directly. :D

[raddimus]

medically speaking we already are...Look at stephen hawkins or the doctor who as already transfeered nano technology in his skin to open doors at his facilities,but on a more common level there is now the artificial heart and all kinds of other medical devices.I could go on forever.check this out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeWT-fuUyEY

this robotic suit is gonna turn grunts into super soldiers.

whoa I just found the realife early prototype for black arachnia...it is lacking weponry but is fully;fluidly mobile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m_cCP1wn94

[RiseDarthVader]

We are getting closer to the creation of skynet and transforming robots that whipe out the human race everyday.

[raddimus]

I think it's the plan.lets creat machines that do everything for us till they can relace us.

[guitarded]

There are advantages and disadvantages to everything. I think this is a step in the right direction, although this technology should be used in Industrial applications as well. Construction, and maintenance, could go swifter, and smoother with exosuits. Firefighters would benefit from this as well....


......but, just imagine what criminals would do

[guitarded]

Leaving aside the ethical aspect, the capability enhancement of human brain is likely becoming reality in the not so distant future.
I and my writing partner often talk it'd be so convenient if we could share untyped ideas directly. :D


That's not a bad idea, as long as you can turn it on and off :p

[raddimus]

I think the exosuits would be great for the physically impaired as well.

[Trailbreaker]

We are getting closer to the creation of skynet and transforming robots that whipe out the human race everyday.

That's what happened in Asylum's "Transmorphers".:p

[raddimus]

HUH I misse that one...was it a comic or show?

[Trailbreaker]

HUH I misse that one...was it a comic or show?

It was a very low budget rip-off of Transformers. It's made by the same guys that made Snakes on a Train and Alien vs. Hunter. The movie takes place 400 years in the future where a band of humans take on an army of "transmorphing" robots who rule Earth. It's kinda like the whole man vs. machine thing we saw in Terminator, except these robots were from another planet.

I have never seen it but a friend of mine said it was pretty bad. Ironically, he has never seen Transformers yet.

[raddimus]

lol...cool.I'll see if I can't find these horrible creations,lol.Never heard or seen any of em.

[xAgonyxScenex]

Oh c'mon, nanobots? I want a really, really, real transformer, one that can turn into a car.

Lets just hope nanotechology doesn't evolve to the castastrophic "grey goo" scenarior.

i just got horrific visions of flubber for some reason

[MitP]

What's to stop them from going HAL on us, I wonder?

[raddimus]

well nano technology from my understanding,has a simple self-replicating goal.where as artificial intelligence.is more what we need to worry about going hal on us.

[Duracell Bunny]

Those exoskeletons are cool. And it looks a lot like the game CRYSIS if anyone has ever played it. NANO bots are fed into suit to give it extra speed, strength or cloak it. Its definatley not as far off as it sounds.

[raddimus]

oh yhea nano technology is already being used and is far into it's experimentation stages,and as for the game never played it.

[Duracell Bunny]

Should give it a try if you like FPS'. You need reallllllllllyyyyyy good specs to run it though. Its mindblowing.

[raddimus]

send me a link. please dur

[MR BLU]

I hope I'm dead before Skynet takes over....... I don't want to see the day when humanity falls because we were to lazy to change the light bulb.
:(