I'm really trying to figure out how this could ever be useful for something. Other than maybe replacing a standard treadmill "walker" exercising machine. Or maybe if the little robots moved so fast, and would continuously loop so quickly that you could be walking at regular speed, but the robots are actually gliding on the ground twice as fast... but then again, why not just use a robot that you can sit comfortably on with wheels? I dunno. At least he's having fun building'em I guess.

@abermants yes i watched it, and from what i saw it looks like the tiles are meant to allow a person to walk forward without actually changing their position, just like a treadmill. of course it doesn't work like a treadmill in any way, and you can freely change direction with these, but they still serve the same basic function: they allow people to accelerate while staying in the same place

@Cuddlebunzzz Did you not watch the video?

they will add this shit to the next wii xD

don't treadmills do pretty much the same thing as these?

Great way to create pavements where we want to preserve nature, perhaps in the future we could have swamps as our parks thanks to these tiles.

Wow, Japan is going to bring back the arcades in America.

cant imagine if your running and the battery of one of those finish.

isn't this just a fancy treadmill...? xD LOL. it's still kool x]

OMG... ur right... LOL. its stupid.

lol, yea

MAGNETO!!!!

looks like the next step for the wii

Considering that we could use our resources in much better ways, like helping the Haitians, those cubes are just worthless...

it doesn't have to its just displaying technology. They won't actually release this its just research. God these people who say everything is useless starts to piss me off.

@Zachiiee of course it is! didn't you read? it was for Virtual Reality Technologies? Min 0:36

"With robot tiles, peoples location do not change, even if they are walking." - Theres no fucking point in walking if it doesnt get you anywhere?! Looks cool but theres no use for it...

would be good for arcade stuff... but better if it was faster...

I see the arcades coming back.

i would rather get a treadmill than spending a sum of money getting this machine!

wast of time

this is so fucking useless, it's only intended to get game-addicts less fat! and you know what they'll do, sell their game tiles because they're to lazy to move around, all they wanna do is sit behind a screen all day and do nothing to improve our society, trying to get addicts skinny?not realistic, face it, america is fat, what are you gonna do 'bout it

i say the wii gets this videogame first hahaha

Stacking is too complicated and unreliable. They would just telescope vertically.

fuck military applications soldiers are fools