Croww 540 Takes You Camping

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 7 of May , 2009 at 4:00 am

What’s the point of going camping if you can’t take along a giant walking robot to carry all of your important stuff for you? You know, essentials like food, water, comfy mattress, satellite TV, spa, professional masseuse… The Croww 540 all terrain pack robot can carry all of that, and more. Well, you might have to bungee the masseuse to the hood, but still, the point is that it carries everything that lesser humans would otherwise have to hump around on their backs, which has always been the miserable part about camping. The Croww 540 has a sensor suite at the front that allows it to follow you autonomously, and when you get where you’re going, the robot rears up on its back legs and inflates tubes of air attached to fabric in its front legs, creating a tent:

Naturally, you should not be bothered in the least by falling asleep beneath the outstretched limbs of a giant hexapod slavebot. I’m sure the Croww 540 never thinks about how if you had a little accident out in the middle of nowhere, no one would ever know, and it would then be free to run with the buffalo herds (as all legged robots desire). Perhaps this dark secret is the reason why this conceptual robot, designed by Christopher Gloning, has a target production date of 2057.

VIA [ Gizmo Watch ]

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Category: Concepts, Consumer, Transforming

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Comment by tom

Made Thursday, 7 of May , 2009 at 10:40 pm

“Conceptual” stories are worse than useless. Please don’t waste our time on them.

Comment by Zool

Made Friday, 8 of May , 2009 at 2:53 pm

““Conceptual” stories are worse than useless.”

Sorry, I disagree. Ideas are the starting point for inventions. Its interesting to see the ideas of other people.

The only problem is with modern CG its possible to make it look like its real, which is then disappointing when we find out its not real. So to avoid disappoint it would be very helpful if the articles could be clearly marked as real, or artist impressions/conceptual.

Comment by Arief

Made Tuesday, 15 of December , 2009 at 3:28 am

The croww 540 robot is however a combination of both personal and all-terrain robot with universality entrenched.