This is a job for Godzilla!

Or perhaps some ninjas...

If I didn't know this was an actual news headline, I'd assume it was part of a bad Japanese action movie:

Robot Attacks Japanese Prime Minister!

Japan’s first mall-patrolling security robot, the T63 Artemis, took an instant dislike to Japan’s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi yesterday.  A simple meet-and-greet experience was obviously too much for the batty bot, which launched a smokescreen on contact.

This is for real!  My only questions are:

1) Is the T63 an early prototype for the T800 and T1000?

and,

2) Has anyone warned Sarah Connor?

Comments

[doktor x]

Our secret Service should take a proactive stance in equipping themselves with portable EMP devices. The next best thing would be a universal remote with a button set up to make the robot flail its arms wildly whilst making a general proclamation of great peril.

Rogue robots are almost scarier than clowns.

[Gullyborg]

disturbing trend:

http://gullyborg.typepad.com/weblog_archive/2005/08/the_stuff_of_ni.html

http://gullyborg.typepad.com/weblog_archive/2005/07/wealthy_nerds_r.html

Just what are the Japanese up to?

What happens if they outfit one of those chick robots with the new sensory technology and the T63 aggression mode, then direct it to go after a specific target?

TERMINATORS ARE COMING!

FEMBOTS!!!