Dman1100

one of the mini engineers over-built the mini to supply parts for his 15 foot robot. he used bmw's reputation for over-building many of it's cars to cover his plans to build a massive and very maneuverable robot. here's the website of his research and some mpegs of tests that he did. the thing is made completely of mini parts. there was a little book in the may '04 issue of motortrend called men of metal about sightings in the oxford england area. if you've ever wondered why the mini has AI in the airbag system, here's the reason. it's quite amazing that he pulled this off.
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Dman1100

i can't get over how human-like all the robot's movements are. the motions are so fluid.

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to the fullest.

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Slammed90Lude

jesus this is at least the third time i've seen this posted

DarkHand

Triple repost and already proven fake :P

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Originally Posted by Celerity They say you only use 2% of your brain. I wonder what we do with the other 94%.

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Dman1100

no way man. haha how was it proven fake?

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From the old post:

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Originally posted by DarkHand@ This was on Slashdot a few weeks ago and proven fake. It's clearly CGI in many places. It's a cleverly setup ad for the Mini. If you whois lookup the site, it belings to an advertizing company that specializes in TV commercials.

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Originally Posted by Celerity They say you only use 2% of your brain. I wonder what we do with the other 94%.

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Originally Posted by TurboMirage & Calesta "Life is like a bag of Skittles... you have to eat all the colors"

Celerity

I fucking believe this is the third time I've had to say :


You're stupid. There is no Robot Mini. It's a ad campaign for the new Transformers movie.

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repost, i started the original. locked.

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