We all know the Japanese have a bizarre desire to fill the world with robots and place them in the strangest of places. Well, this time they have outclassed even the fire breathing baby I saw a while back: Japan's Strategic Headquarters for Space Development has recently announced that by 2020, it would be placing the first two-legged robot on the Moon. Sci-fi fans will have a field day with this one.

However, Japan didn't announce whether it would be Atom-based, or have an awesome quad core electronic heart. I'd venture a guess - the little robot will see through OLED eyes and computing with, as already mentioned, quad core CPUs. What I'm really curious about is how this baby will look.

Will it be more of an “I Robot” kind of machine or an awesome Gundam fire breathing, lightsaber-equipped robot complete with photon torpedoes, a huge plasma rifle and polarized chassis for shielding? Wouldn't that be cool? “A small step for mankind, a giant leap for the new Robot Dominion.”

Should this robot-only mission succeed, there are plans for a joint human-robot mission to explore the Moon. Like captain Picard and Data. I wonder whether the ship will be named Enterprise. Now, wouldn't that be something? Or Battlestar Galactica, because upon reaching the Moon, the robots will take over the ship, go to a far away galaxy and come back 40 years later, extremely advanced and naming themselves Cylons from a Battlestar Galactica show, one of the original human crew had on Blu-ray.

But, of course, one robot would be good and his name would be Robbie and he would help Will Smith destroy the entire robot invader race and then Bill Gates would come and hire Robbie and they would build the ultimate PC with the ultimate operating system. And it would be named HAL.

I know I have an overactive imagination... but who said I was just imagining? Take a look at the sky!


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