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We're still blowing up trililons of dollars on launch pads and crash landings, while pretending we're advanced enough to fly whole colonies to Mars.
The Fleshlight will be the most advanced robotic by the end of this decade. That's not to say there's be trillions in grants squandered on the robotic version though.
Perverted Motorfuckers.
Spiders, zombies, and robots: pick any of the three, and you've got yourself the makings of a pretty decent horror flick. Combine them together, and you've got a real life experiment out of Rice's George R. Brown School of Engineering.
According to a university press release, engineering students have created necrobotic (zombie robot) spiders from spider corpses. ...
Assistant Professor Daniel Preston who supervised the team said,
"There are a lot of pick-and-place tasks we could look into, repetitive tasks like sorting or moving objects around at these small scales, and maybe even things like assembly of microelectronics."
Spiders are renewable and biodegradable after all; never mind the pounds of machinery in that video used to reanimate one.
Still, it seems fitting to imagine a future where an army of dead robotic spiders builds the technology that entangles us in the world wide web and slowly sucks our life away.
Huawei has something useful the world wants and we don't have a suitable substitute - we do have Facebook, Twitter, and the lead in making Apps so there is at least that....
http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=31454