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Robot Family in Every Home?
cswilly writes: "Yahoo has a story that Sony wants to see a robot animal in every home. I was wondering if Sony has a total cost of ownership argument for these things? Let's see, $2500 for a robot dog + $100 in electricity oven ten years. A real dog costs, say $1/day to feed, lives ten years for $3650 on food, plus $1000 in vet bills. The robot wins hands down." But keeping it in Mom's Robot Oil isn't cheap either...
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A sufficiently sized and well-trained dog is able come up with it's own food if you live in a neighborhood sporting enough cats.
OTOH, the Sony petdogs probably have a setting to disable barking at night.
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I would like to see the same calculation for a real human versus a RealDoll:
http://www.realdoll.com/
Think of how much you would save! We need RealDolls in every home!
Some kind person left a pamphlet on my car, indicating that the world was going to end soon, and that I should beware the mark of the beast. As fate would have it, there is a pretty clear section of this highly informative and exceptionally soul-cleansing literature about robotic animals and their place in God's kingdom. As it turns out, this is clearly mentioned in an obscure and out-of-context verse of the bible. Beware, my friends, the end is near.
Man, what I wouldn't give to know who that kind person was, so that I might track them down and give them a good thanking.
So they will start eating robot dogs instead of real ones? ;)
42 + 1 = 42
Thats right folks. Think about it. With enough robot dogs and some typical /. tinkering, we're talking about nightly Battle Bots right in your own living room.
--Dave
Last night took my girlfriend out to dinner and a movie. Dinner cost 72 dollars and the movie was about 23. This is just a fraction of the expenses I always pay on this girl.
Robot Girlfriend, however, will sit at home until I return from where ever I was having fun...
and the bitch will like it!
Long live Robot Girlfriend!
Haven't they already got a protptype working in this home?
You're using her as bait, Master!
Yeah, but remember that anchovies are not extinct... yet!
Not that I break into many houses, but if the house I burglar has a robot dog, it's not going to scare me off. I'd take it.
Woot w00t w007.
Have you ever had a real dog (or cat?) They certainly aren't "operational" all day long unless the Aibo has a "sleep and ignore my master" mode. :)
This is doubly true for cats. In fact the AI for a robotic cat should be pretty easy to write:
while true
do
sleep
sleep
sleep
eat
sleep
sleep
sleep
random
done
I read the internet for the articles.
puke up hairball
shit over the side of the litter box
Sacred cows make the best burgers.
Robot cats are the way to go here... they're much cheaper to make, since they only need to be programmed to sit there and ignore you...