mini engineer makes robots from minis

[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.
MINI Robot

 

[Dman1100]

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

 

[NotUrAverage_Si]

to the fullest.

 

[Slammed90Lude]

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

 

[DarkHand]

Triple repost and already proven fake

 

[Dman1100]

no way man. haha how was it proven fake?

 

[DarkHand]

Originally posted by Dman1100+Apr 24 2004, 04:08 PM-->

no way man. haha how was it proven fake?

From the old post:

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.

DarkHand
I wanted it to be real so bad

Me too... But if it were real this guy would be decades ahead of the rest of the scientific community in robotics... Every government and major corporation in the world would be after that technology.[/QUOTE]

 

[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.

-> Steve

 

[GSRCRXsi]

repost, i started the original. locked.