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Android Controls Robot, Human Enslavement Imminent

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By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 at 7:36 AM

You know when Google’s mobile operating system is capable of controlling the movements of a $3000 Japanese robot, it’s only a matter of time before even bigger robots fall under Android’s devious sway – throw in a dash of self-awareness, and you’ve got a dystopian future where an amalgamate mothermind of Android phones independently controls legions of disposable (yet deceptively adorable) robots and Christian Bale cusses off coworkers in between the dropping bombshells.

For now, though, this 9” PLEN robot can do stuff through a standard directional or an accelerometer-controlled joystick interface on an Android phone, like hug (crush), kick (violently), walk (with grim determination), turn (on its oppressive human overlords), and even do a little dance (in celeberation, over the smouldering corpse of mankind). PLEN can get mobile thanks to a skateboard or a wheeled-foot attachment, but we didn’t see any controls for those in the Android app, and good thing; the last thing I want are robots using the shattered cities of our civilization to pull wicked air in a 1080 goofy-foot ollie.

[via AndroidGuys]

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  • Bambi Blue

    I, for one, welcome our fearless Android leaders.

    We’ll make great pets.

  • Kyle

    It would be sort of fun fighting about 10,000 of those little guys.