THE ROBOTS ARE COMING!

I told you this was happening, didn't I? I tried to warn you and you just laughed and laughed. But seriously, the robots are going to kill us all. Why are we building giant robots that can crush our homes and gun us down as we flee, screaming? You'll have to ask Nagumo Masaki who has built the Land Walker, a two-legged, walking robot that you can see here.

The mechanical monster goes about 1 mile/hour right now and shoots rubber balls from an air cannon, but how long before it's running around at 50 miles/hour and those rubber balls have become fiery lead? I was somewhat mollified to see this Windows Media video and realize that this thing doesn't walk so much as it rolls, with all the grace of an arthritic inline skater, but still...is it really a good idea to tempt fate this way?