A great way to pump up an audience is to briefly present them with a product that is roughly 50 times more awesome than the product they will actually be watching. To this end, Cleatus the Fox Sports Robot has been complemented with some terrifying football-playing robotic pals.
VIDEO: Deconstructing The New Fox Sports Robot
This robot is to us what Colossus of Rhodes was to the Greeks, and while I understand what that says of us, it’s important nonetheless. Some equally important talking points are after the jump.
- You see that cloud at the beginning that's hovering over the stadium? Remember: that is already somewhat close to being an actual thing in real life.
- So it's the future and we're all living in giant conclaves and everything looks like a CSI forensics lab and we have giant Mechwarriors playing electric lightning football with jump jets, and there are still human officials. Robot officials are far more plausible than robot players, but you know what, screw the technologies of motion detection, impact detection, spatial triangulation, and the processing power to push all these variables through advanced algorithms. Screw also the profound improvements to these technologies that are bound to be made in the future. You know what's better? Seven dudes whose feelings are hurt by crowd noise.
- Those officials do have some pretty rad hover-pods, though.
- All the same, they're offered no respect by No. 34, who decides to make his entrance by rocketing in through the open roof. He almost knocked two officials out of their hover-pods. Clearly, the NFL Referees' Association leveraged all its bargaining power in order to have said hover-pods. I would do the same thing.
- Look at this!
Guy has a rocket built into the side of his foot to counter-act the motion of his foot sliding into the turf. This robo-skeleton is almost impossibly well-developed. Conclusion: Fox has totally already built this robot.
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