Japan is up to some wacky stuff, cue shock.

• Japan wants to have robots on the moon by 2015.
• Japan wants to have a robot colony on the moon by 2020.
• Japan wants to send Bruce Willis to blow up the Asteroid on a collision course with earth.

Two of the above statements are true, lucky for you Bruce Willis isn't fond of Japan.

He also enjoys explosions and long walks on the beach.

Japan, trying to close the gap between us and Armageddon (no pun intended) has once again set itself a ridiculous goal. Japan plans to have partially autonomous robots on the moon as soon as 2015. Eventually, the robots will build more robots, so on and so forth until the moon is converted into a robot colony made by robots, for robots. Jokes about sentient AI aside, this is actually pretty awesome. If any country is able to do something straight out of a mech anime, it's japan. Even if we don't have actual humans, we still have virtual surrogates exploring for us (even though it is a bit lazy). The next logical step would be to go past the moon and place robot colonies on the other uninhabitable planets in our solar system, and then further towards Proxima Centauri and so on. I can easily imagine a future where our galaxy is completely inhabited by scout droids.

We come in peace

This isn't just all talk no action though, Japan has already put forth 2.2 billion dollars to reach it's goal. All this money was presumably raised by the sales of the Wii, DS, and Japan's number one export: tentacle porn.

Typical Japanese breakfast.

via PopSci

I'd like to make a quick note that as of now, I'm dramatically changing my posting format. I'm also working on a better way to conclude posts in a fitting way. Thanks for reading! Be sure to leave any corrections or opinions in the comments and they will be duly noted.

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The video above is a demonstration of the spin off project of the now web-famous BigDog. Taking the place of BigDog is the aptly named LittleDog, an autonomously moving quadrupedal robot. The video demonstrates it's ability to navigate through, not just flat and simple terrain, but complex obstacles.

Wow. That was awesome. It's hard to actually wrap your head around how perfect animal-like movement is with the LittleDog. I can't say that this wasn't the case when BigDog made its' astonishing debut, but being able to fit everything required to process the immense load of data required for fluent movement is a marvel of engineering. LittleDog also displays the ability to distinguish between stable footing and unstable footing, and even if it were to slip, the little terminator has the ability to get his ass right back up. LittleDog also features the ability to navigate unknown terrain and unforeseen obstacles, identifying what to do just by analyzing data received from it's feet. I'm not sure about you, but I still slam my foot into the same corner every morning, regardless of what data my feet give me.

I'd like to make a quick anecdote on how quickly robots are not just matching humanoid ability, but surpassing it.

Be afraid.

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Just thought that I'd start this blog off with a short introduction. This is my new blog on all things technology including, but not limited to, the latest news in computers, video game consoles, cell phones and the newest tech craze: the floppy disk. I hear it can hold over one megabyte of information. That's more than eight-million bits....
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