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Giant robots piloting huge fire-breathing truck-planes

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Giant robots piloting huge fire-breathing truck-planes

Postby Taro Toporific » Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:03 am

Image2008 Rose Parade float - ASIMO

Giant ASIMO replica to pilot Honda's transforming Rose Parade float Engadget, 2007/12/30/...Honda planning an ambitious float for 2008 that will feature a gigantic ASIMO replica riding a transforming Honda Ridgeline... its generators will cause "the hood of the truck to fold forward to become an aircraft cockpit, the doors and sides of the truck to unfold outward to become wings, the wheels to tuck under the body, and the bed of the truck to open and take on the form of an aircraft tail section, complete with rocket engines - and even real fire." ...more...


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Postby IkemenTommy » Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:10 am

One word.. WTF
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Postby American Oyaji » Wed Jan 02, 2008 2:40 am

No they didn't use Welcome to Machine!?

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Postby Taro Toporific » Wed Jan 02, 2008 3:50 am

American Oyaji wrote:No they didn't use Welcome to Machine!
Hey, I didn't even notice that the final snatch of music in the YouTube video of the ASIMO's Rose Parade float was Pink Floyd's Welcome To The Machine.
[YT]ZB_2oIKUVks[/YT]--Video of Pink Floyd
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