Robot bear and robot eagle join robot gorilla to kick off a brand new robot ecosystem
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In a sign of things to come, early 2020 brought us the robot “spy” gorilla, a mechanical creature used by the BBC’s Spy In The Wild to record human-free nature footage. Months later, the world consumed with problems so immediate that the impending collapse of our environment has managed to feel like next year’s problem, the BBC has gone on creating more robot animals. Ostensibly, all of this is work is done to observe animals more closely, but to the trained eye it’s obviously meant as an attempt to replace our dying world’s fauna with a more perfect machine ecosystem.
A clip from Spy In The Wild shows two new robot spy species—a bear cub and an eagle—as they’re sent out to interact with their increasingly obsolete, living and breathing counterparts. The robo-cub joins a bunch of grizzlies as they hunt salmon and mostly just sits in the grass or behind logs to watch them like a teddy bear peeping tom. The robo-eagle flies overhead for a better view of the action. Both machines do not hunger for these fish because, the BBC knows, they can survive long after the rivers have turned to acid lakes and the changing of the seasons is replaced by a never-ending heat wave. The new lifeforms, born from engineering labs, will continue to document the landscape through their camera eyes long after all organic life has disappeared around them.
Other series highlights show us that the BBC has successfully created robot seals, robot meerkats, robot warthogs, and many other robonimals. It won’t be long until every species on Earth has been replaced with a mechanical version and the broadcaster’s mission will have been fulfilled: A clockwork world, freed from the burdens of the flesh, where the robot animals wander a decimated planet to form terrifyingly logical new ecosystems.
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16 Comments
Aloy! You better be training your parkour and bow skills, so help me!!
Man, with my shit eyesight I’m never going to be able to hit those flashing weak spots!I guess I’m food.
I, for one, can’t wait to wear a headdress made out of robot dinosaur parts
We are now officially one step closer to Brute Force!
That lion’s hair must get caught in its suit’s joints all the time.
And We3’s murder pets!
Yeah but Brute Force makes me cry less.
God I love that comic so much.“Good 2! 1 attack!”
“Uh oh.”
If I ever win the lottery I’m commissioning a movie adaptation or HBO miniseries with all the funding. Nothing cut. Top-flight effects. The works.
lol, “Furman”
I draw a hard line against making a robot rhino.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
I assume the robot wolves do.
The BBC’s run by Dr Robotnik?
The graphics in this Horizon: Zero Dawn prequel are looking really rough, man. You call this next gen? Feh!
I’ve been witching this, it’s good, but holy shit some of Rossum’s new Universal Robots are down right disturbing looking.