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After watching this GIF, I imagined what it would feel like walking past a charging station with this thing on it. How it slowly turns its 10KV-charged head towards me.

"- You definitely do look like a charging socket to me.

- I really do not. Look, I am human...

- No, you really do. You just need a quick charge..."

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Just keep your mouth closed and it won't notice there's a socket to plug into. Once you start talking though, it may keep applying greater and greater force in a valiant attempt to insert the charger...

That's an awfully optimistic anatomical statement when we're talking about robotic snakes. Just saying.

I just realized that this is a "dual-use" technology, if you know what I mean.

Probably a coincidence: http://cleantechnica.com/2015/05/06/teslas-next-big-supercha...

...probably.

Hey, free electricity at least.

I'm reminded of the movie Matrix where the snake like robotic connectors go and connect to sockets behind human brains.

well, it can be used as a home protection device - once home security is armed anything the computer identifies as intruder can be chased and Tasered by this thing.

This is the far more likely scenario:

After watching this GIF, I imagined what it would feel like walking past a charging station with this thing on it. How it slowly turns its 10KV-charged head towards me.

"- You definitely do not look like a charging socket to me.

- I really am. Look, I am not human...

- No, you really don't...

- I just need a quick charge!"

10 KV? I think it's max about 400 V, depending on region.

In a British accent too to make it all the more frightening

Wheatley's voice

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