This is interesting, if not a bit creepy, that it's not alive... 

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1161

Awesome, but then it's kinda creepy too.  Reminds me of the movie Screamers, anyone remember that one?  It came out quite a few years before any of the matrix movies came out.

Shades of Transformers too.

I liked it...and I do remember screamers.....   i thought they make more of them

but this reminds me more of the movie VIRUS.... 

Anyone thought of the replicators in Stargate SG1 yet? This looks kinda like a simple version of that lol.

I thought of the replicators, but couldn't remember the name off of the top of my head.  Thanks for that one Rayraz.

I thought of them too, but then remembered the "star" aircraft ships used in the anime Last Exile, since they were 4 pointed stars and could walk around.. kinda clumsly.. similar to this robot.  Anyone seen that anime?

looks really sad as its trying to cope with damaged limp, poor thing.

Sad?  Scary is more like it.  I'm not really a doomsayer, just your standard pessimist with a very strong case of paranoia who has watched way too much bad scifi.  Yep, scary is what it is.

I modeled the replicators a while back, but I didn't get much interest in them..;)

I dunno...  I think of dragoons or mantis bots, depending on which RTS you prefer.

It looks really cool when it's "stretching out" at the beginning. But I feel it's gimped even before they start tearing it apart. The legs really need a sweeping  y-axis articulation where they connect to the body so it can actually scoot (or at least has the potential to.) Most arthopods have a really short 1st leg segment connecting to the body that works this way. Ah...  They're modeling on the legs of a starfish (which is kinda flawed since most of those use the little tube feet all over their body to get around and not their legs.)

I thought of the replicators too, and that Star Trek one where picard fights off the mechanical things that wanted to stop earth getting into space (cant remember the name sorry, there were a lot of  refences to Moby Dick) Creepy stuff. Good for limb replacement things though I guess, it is all in the application I guess! Jen

Kind of weird if you ask me. 

read an interesting article associated to this on the register, said that some of the next generation of robots where learning to speak by assessing internet traffic, the guess of the article was therefore that robots will end up talking like l33t haXXors...

Speaking of learning AI, anyone ever try this free game called NERO? Looks like it could have some potential if the bugs get worked out. I seem to have problems with it crashing once I get the guys to learn something more advanced than running along walls while spinning in circles.

Cog, you should try the Alan Speak-a-tron at www.a-i.com its one of the best talking robots i've come about so far! And apparently theres even better stuff possible!