(Thanks to Susan for the nooze tip.)
“The World Humanoid Robot Games,” aka “Robot Olympics–is there any reason for this? Some 75,000 “students” from 95 countries attended this most recent one. In China–why does that not surprise me?
The robots are constructed by Lego. They’ve been doing this since 2004.
I don’t get it. Is this the successor for Krazy Ikes? (Here’s a picture of Krazy Ikes, if you’re not old enough to remember them.:
(Come to think of it, they do strongly resemble Lego.)
Are Lego robots a huge advance over human Olympians who saturate themselves with steroids? Or are they a takeoff on human beings in general–makes us laugh without knowing why?
I’m voting for the latter–and it gives me the heebie-jeebies.
WTH?! Who wants to watched programmed machines fighting. There’s more adventure watching a ladybug.
How about dueling sock puppets?
That would be much more exciting. 🙂
Dueling sock puppets are fun! Think of Punch & Judy; Kukla, Fran, and Ollie; Lucky Pup…. Lots of fun!
I grew up on those shows!
Cool! I love Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots!
OCF
A lot of kids in our neighborhood had them.