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Humanoid Powered by Linux
lems1 was among the avalanche of people who submitted this Linux powered Humanoid. The website has
pictures and videos if you're curious. We're not exactly worrying about him seeking out the blue fairy or anything, but its nifty.
The cubicle next to me has been occupied by a linux-powered humanoid for the last two years.
Treatment, not tyranny. End the drug war and free our American POWs.
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Hmm, so a device is only powered by a certain OS if its integrated as module into its kernel?
"Between strong and weak, between rich and poor [...], it is freedom which oppresses and the law which sets free"
Whenever robots like this come up, the actuators always seem to use motors and gears. I've often that using that method is rather limiting, since they are very bulky.
Are there any good methods for more of a muscle-type actuator? Something very narrow that contracts. It seems like if you had something simple and cheap enough, you could use lots of them to give much better mobility.
I'm guessing there isn't anything really good, otherwise people would do it that way. Still, could you have some telescoping rod kind of thing with a coil to contract it? You wouldn't even need to go both directions -- just do what a muscle does, and wait for the opposing actuator to move it back out. It seems like there has to be something simpler that works better than motors and gears.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Come on guys, if we are going to make a robot, why not make a really cool robot that can pick up chicks?
What the heck are YOU talking about?
They need to make one that LOOKS like a chick! I want a hot and sexy chrome plated busty robo sex slave! Boo Yaa!
If they keep making robots that look like THAT they're never going to make it into the adult toy business!
How can that home robot market ever take off without backing the pr0n industry?
*snicker*
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Funny ... when I first got to this page, the first humanoid picture I've seen was the one above "gates unveils XP". I didn't know he was running on linux after all ...