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There Will Be Robots: Modified Ditch Witch is the Mother Alien Fighting Exo-Suit You’ve Always Wanted

Posted by mistergroonk in Robots, Science, Technology on October 21, 2011

Say what you will about the wonderful idea of having “loader technology”(please remember your ALIENS) but that Vice President of operations is going to regret calling that robot a slave.

“Engineers at Raytheon-Sarcos in Salt Lake City demonstrated a unique set of tele-operated robotic arms attached to a modified Ditch Witch. With no training at all, one immediately meshes with the feelings and actions of the machine. It mirrored everything one does with their arms, wrists and shoulders.”

via +Ariana Osborne

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Tuesday Tease: Madhouse Produced Iron Man Anime Coming to @G4TV in 2011.

Posted by mistergroonk in Animation, Anime, Television, Trailers on July 27, 2010

Official Synopsis

In the Madhouse Iron Man series Tony Stark travels to Japan to unveil a new ARC reactor project and peace initiative. He announces his retirement and the mass production of a new Iron Man Dio armor, but is soon forced back into action as problems arise with the Dio armor.

What We Learned:
There’ll soon be one other show on G4 worth our precious time. That first show being Attack of the Show.

Why We’re Gonna Watch:
This anime has been talked about for many months. Now there’s a nice trailer in which to focus our intent.Madhouse is a Japanese animation studio that has produced some of the most amazing anime we’ve layed eyes upon. A list of favorites include: The Animatrix (Program and World Record), Paprika, Paranoia Agent, Metropolis, Trigun, Millennium Actress, Perfect Blue and, well, our list could go on forever. Another reason to watch is Warren Ellis wrote it.

And, oh yeah, animated powered armor battles. Can’t forget those.

When’s it coming?
2011 on G4TV.

Official site:
We haven’t quite zeroed in on this one yet. This Wikipedia site should do for now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Anime
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