Ever since the first Terminator movie predicted the rise of the machines, some of us have been awaiting our robot overlords. Now that the UK has finished launching Skynet (what were they thinking?) our robotic conquest may not be too far off.

Of course, Skynet is going to need a lot of infrastructure to collect data. It's got sattleites in place and it's got millions of webcams to tap into, but what about areas that aren't always online? Many companies don't have a CCTV network like the UK has. There's also the question of learning about and interpereting the actions of all those pesky humans that escaped the first wave of nukes. Enter more Britts with the Hexapod Emotional Spider Robot.

The programmers have created a system for tracking faces, interpereting emotional content, and reacting to that content. This thing is already advanced enough to be on exhibit at a science museum and it's just a little really quite freaky. Check out this video of it on display at the London Science Museum.

And to think people are giving them weapons too!

-- via io9

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