History In the Making: This Pipe-Twisting Robot Is Bender’s Great-Great-Great-Grandfather

If Futurama has taught me anything , it ’s that one day factory robots will wander the street drink , oath , and from time to time bending pieces of metallic element for a living . But that ’s still a longsighted ways off , as thisvideo of a comparatively archaic pipe - bending botillustrates .

That ’s not to say that Opton ’s T - WIN20 KDM , which is arguably the first of a recollective line of bending golem , is n’t telling . Unlike its father , the T - WIN20 is able to feed in its own organ pipe , flex it into any variety of twisted shape that ’s take , and then automatically discharge it without any human intervention . Without a phantom of a doubt you ’re reckon at the humble beginnings of the Special Air Service - verbalize robots TV sitcoms have promised us . But if you ca n’t wait and require your own loveable robot sidekick now , it can be yours for a bare $ 194,000 . [ DigInfo goggle box ]

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