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In this video we have a sort of pre-steampunk robot caught on video. Made of wood, armed with two arms and 5 rubber band shooting Gatling guns, and a guy inside. If this wouldn’t scare your cat, nothing will!

From Make Magazine, here is Osamu Kanda’s Ultimate Rubber Band Shooting Robot. This was posted by Marc de Vinck.

If this stuff fascinates you, get Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots by Timothy N. Hornyak. I highly recommend this book. It has a great section on Japan’s early love affair with automatons that has continued through the centuries and is culminating in their preeminence in humanoid robotics. Here is the link to my previous review of Loving the Machine.

Related posts:

1. Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots by Timothy N. Hornyak
2. Building Robots – Getting Started
3. Karel Capek’s Play R.U.R. and the Origin of Robots
4. Cool Video of Robots Building Cars – Where are Tomorrow’s Jobs?
5. Robots for Kids – Books to Get Started Pt 2

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