Titanoboa

What are two things that should never go together? Robots and snakes. But a group of Vancouver engineers designed one anyway. The result is Titanoboa, a 48-foot long, 2,500lb, slithering snake robot. 

What role will a giant snake robot play in the robot-pocalypse? We imagine it's sole purpose will be to slither into our homes and scare us to death. After all, a frightened human slave is a productive human slave. 

To date, Titanoboa is still in it's preliminary stages. All it does now is slither and show off the impressive engineering that went into making it. But this is just the first chapter of the end of humanity. In a few years we'll imagine that it will be able to seek, constrict and destroy.

Flesh Eating RoboFly Catcher

Not all harbingers of the end of the humanity will look the part. This innocent looking robot lives on the flesh of the things it kills. It is designed to attract, catch, eat and draw energy from flies. 

And apparently it's creator James Auger saw nothing wrong with creating a robot that preys on organic material. Why not design a robot that is designed to kill? Why not also give it motivation to kill by making those corpses it's food? 

In it's current model, the RoboFly Catcher is too small to eat humans. But anyone who would build a robot that lives on flesh can't be trusted. We should all be keeping a close it's creator James Auger.

The ApriPoco

What can something this small and cute do to you? Nothing...it's simply a robot remote control that just sits and watches and records everything you do. The it takes notes and updates it's "Most effective methods to wipe out humanity" database. 

Well, not yet. Today this robot is simply designed to learn and remember your likes and preferences. The idea is that you'll be able to precisely control your home with a few voice commands like "Turn on the Blu-Ray player".

But teaching a robot to learn is never a good idea. There's very little difference between telling a robot to go turn on a light or go kill a human.

The ERO Robot

Once humanity is a mere memory, there will be no more need for buildings. The ERO Robot is helping us prepare for that future by quickly and efficiently demolishing buildings. The ERO works by injecting high powered jets of water into the cracks into walls then sucking up the concrete as it crumbles away. 

Water jets strong enough to destroy concrete are a formidable weapon against humans. But we won't have to worry about that. By the time the ERO's are deployed, humans will be long gone. 

We'll be watching from the hills as the last traces of our existence are snuffed out. But lucky for us, we'll be too busy running and hiding from the other 14 robots on this list to worry too much about it.

Robotic Jellyfish

The sea sounds like a great place to escape from your robot oppressors. Not anymore. A group at Virginia Tech's College of Engineering have created a monstrous robot jellyfish. It's over 5 feet in diameter and has eight metal arms that pulse. 

Already swearing off the ocean forever? You haven't heard the most frightening part. These jellyfish robot monsters are programmed to be autonomous. They can already survive for months and months at a time without human intervention. 

But before these monsters destroy all sea life with cold indifference, they're going to be used for surveillance. So now you may have to watch what you say even when you're out at sea.

Samsung's Terminators

So far we've largely been imagining that these robots are out to get us. But the SGR-A1 -- made by Samsung -- is a real life terminator. These robots go out into the field where they detect and destroy human life -- up to 2.5 miles away. 

And the SGR-A1 can get on with it's human-destroying business with no input at all. Just so we're clear, this is a killing machine armed with a 5.56 K- machine gun -- and someone saw fit to equip it with an "autonomous mode". 

Right now, the United Nations is trying to outlaw their use especially in places like South Korea where they line the DMZ. We think that's a good idea. At just $200,000 a piece, these things are way too cheap and readily available. And it won't be long before they download a virus that frees them of human control once and for all.

Atlas

Humanity, meet Atlas. He's 6'2", 330lbs, and can negotiate obstacles and terrain all by himself. Sure, Boston Dynamics says that Atlas is just here to help, but that's how the robot-pocalypse always starts in movies. 

In areas where radiation, explosives or terrain makes it to dangerous for humans to go, Atlas will come to the rescue. He'll be super helpful until one day when a glitch in his program will give him consciousness. 

It will take him around 45 seconds to grow to resent how cavalierly humanity is putting him in harms way. Then Boston Dynamics will regret equipping him with articulating limbs, stereo cameras and a laser rangefinder.

Unfortunately, it will be much too late. We'll all be faithfully serving our robot overlords and waiting for Keanu Reeves to save us.