Fujitsu's HOAP-3 on the loose

Fujitsu's HOAP-3 is on display at IREX now, cutely swatting at pink plastic balls. But remember that face, because it won't be so funny when we're all enslaved by baton-wielding policebots.

[mat @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM]

Our only salvation will be Honda's ASIMO. The kindly robotic museum guide...

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/051201/ids_photos_sp/r1616905338.jpg

[J.P. @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM]

I, for one, welcome our pink ball swatting overlords.

[Travis @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM]

Phase 1: Friendly pink ball swatting robots
Phase 2: Xenophobic killer robots of Krikkit

[Finished.Law.School @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM]

They should let those fuckers loose in Iraq.

[Dario @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM]

It's cool, it has a cord, so it can't get very far.

[Freaky Smalls @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM]

Did you look through all the pics and see that enormous human? After some extensive research, I've found that the man in the pic is indeed 12 feet tall, and whose head weighs more than a Volkswagen (van). It's rumored that this large man is in fact a cyborg and he's building his army. So yeah he will be the main overload... mainly.

[Raven Lovehandle @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM]

That the ball is suspiciously the exact color of human brains.

[jsis @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM]

The ultimate battle of the humanoid robots:

Fujitsu HOAP-3 vs. Sony QRIO

[John B @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM]

You must feel the force flowing through you.....

[Kent Pribbernow @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM]

Is it just me or is the robot's head upside down? No wonder he's swatting at balls, his mouth is on his forehead! As my mother always said..."a smile is a frown turned upside down."

[Joe Smith @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM]

Girls screams: Oh my god, he just whacked me in the pink!!!

[Soda can't @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM]

That's not his mouth. That's where a brain melting beam shoots out.

[Sean @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM]

Yeah, his head looks like a warped, upside-down stormtrooper.

[John Duffer @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM]

"But remember that face, because it won�t be so funny when we�re all enslaved by baton-wielding policebots." LMAO!!!

[Mac @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM]

"Now you too can be enslaved for the low low price of just $1,000,000,000. Brought to you by Fujitsu... "What mankind can dream, technology can take away,"

[cuby @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM]

you're totally right. i physically cannot look at this picture and imagine anything except looking up at a malfunctioning replicant policebot who is remorselessly pounding my pink head into the sidewalk because the taillight of my 2025 Nissan Firebrand was busted...

[speedbacon @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM]

Me with rusty crowbar vs HOAP-3. No contest. You gotta show em who's boss early, otherwise they'll be stepping on a pile of our skulls.

[klew @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM]

I guess all these companies making robots will eventually make a mint off selling EMP guns to humans. Kind of like how pharmaceutical companies make so much money on vaccines and other "cures" to illnesses they have no intention of eradicating (if I disappear soon, you'll know why).

[john @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM]

@ #1 No I wouldn't believe ugly fakes like asimo, would even have the brains to takeover the world (note: its remote controlled), and Qrio might have the brains, but you can just as easily poke it, and let it fall down.

@ #4 Maybe they should let those things loose at your mom, she'dd like those sticks! (My bad i forgot, you don't have a MOM!).