Mini Transformer

A boffin in Oxford is building a car repair robot out of a BMW Mini car.

I think this is real. If not, it's a really amazing hoax.

http://www.r50rd.co.uk/research/internal/v2i/engin/

If you go to the site, save the video "Car Stopping" for last.

I have to say, without doubt, that is the most incredible engineering feat I've ever seen. The guy is a genius.

Makes building a GT40 a bit like falling off a log in comparison.

This MINI makes the robotic arm on the space shuttle look

like a tinkertoy! AMAZING! What's even more incredible is

the build time. NASA would take 20 years and billions of

dollars to build something like that! I wonder what's next

for this guy? A real ROBOCOP? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif