A Different Kind of Robot Than I Usually Blog About

You know what makes me worry? Japan.

Why? They're teaching robots how to to fight.



Note that that red robot, King Kizer, was the dark horse candidate of the competition (well, the first year he was in it-I guess this wasn't the first year, though), especially since he was built by a guy in his home workshop. And after an apparent bad loss in an earlier competition, he schooled his way to the top during this event, the Robo-One, which is kind of like the Indianapolis 500 for robots or something.

You might say "Oh, that's harmless. All that those robots can do is swing at each other's faces ineptly." Oho, that's where you'd be wrong.

BEHOLD.



They taught King Kizer how to play baseball. Teach him hockey and he'll know how to knock out your teeth.

You might be thinking that these all are really just harmless sports. Wrong again.



They've taught them how to play "laser tag."

Soon, they'll be upgrading them to "death ray tag." Not long after that, they'll be wondering why the robots are burning the cities and taking over, and Japan will be under quarantine and/or a priority target for a nuclear strike.