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The Six Million Dollar Tortoise

October 27th, 2006 by SB

In Suicidebots’ eternal quest to become the Cute Overload of robotics, we submit for your approval Tina The Tortoise:

Tina ... the three-legged tortoise with caretaker Jo Hawthorn

Tina has a wee small wheel attached to her back bits to enable her to run about and play as turtles do. We hear she’s really aiming to have the shell-mounted, laser-guided Death Ray installed by the end of the year.

Way to go, Tina.

[Thank you Boing Boing and Rantburg and Neatorama and the UK Sun!]

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3 Responses to “The Six Million Dollar Tortoise”

  1. Vrogy Says:
    October 28th, 2006 at 12:47 pm

    I call Photoshopping.

  2. SB Says:
    October 28th, 2006 at 1:38 pm

    Oh well, I guess we’ll have to take a trip to the Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire to see for ourselves. . .Any Brits out there want to confirm whether Tina has the technology?

  3. We are not defenseless against teh r0b0ts! « Geek of All Trades Says:
    October 30th, 2006 at 5:17 pm

    [...] But fear not citizens, we humans are not as defenseless as these soulless simulacra may think we are!  We shall strike back using strength enhancing exoskeletons and our powerful lasers!  Take that, robot tortoise! [...]

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