No, this is not a hoax.Ã, One of the lead engineers for BMW is funding this project out of his own pocket.Ã, The R50R robot is planned to be in production for traffic control within the decade.Ã, This thing is incredible.Ã, It is able to track moving targets etc in a Terminator-style HUD, it is amazingly dextrous, it can literally stop moving cars, just watch the videos in the link below.
EDIT: If you're wondering why it has wheels it's because it's made partly from BMW Mini Cooper parts!
(http://www.r50rd.co.uk/research/internal/v2i/engin/images/photos/photo_2.jpg)
http://www.r50rd.co.uk/research/internal/v2i/engin/
Great, too bad it's not really a Transformer...
great one gilbot.
Just watching it stop a car is the coolest thing I have seen in I don't know how long.
AHHHH1!!!1 IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!!!!
*RUNS AROUND IN PANIC*
HEY! (~ala Cartman)Ã, You tricked me you sick son of a bitch! :=
Stuh, this is not real. Sorry.
Yeah, I saw this a few years back.
No death for us yet, sorry.
That's some good 3D animation. You can tell it's fake when he pulls a white board over for no reason... Obviously to ease rotoscoping.
I saw this like a year ago....still cool though...
yeah, it was made by Jose Perez in LW
http://www.newtek-europe.com/uk/community/lightwave/perez/2.html