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Transforming a Laptop into a Robot
NathanZ writes "Evolution Robotics is selling what looks like a docking station on wheels as a way to transform a laptop into a robot. I'm not exactly sure how this can be useful since the "robot" has no arms. According to their website, "you can train your robot to do things like recognize objects and places, send email, take pictures and video, respond to voice commands, and more!". Yipee. At least it would give me something to do with that old Toshiba laptop sitting in the closet."
finally my plans for an evil army of robots ar becoming complete! the world will be mine! Muhahahahah!!
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the chicks will certanly dig it
[out of keyboard] Form feet and legs!
[out of display] Form arms and body!
[out of Windows XP] And I'll form the head!
[Robot's body shortly turns blue with white lettering crawling around it like an obscene electronic text ticker, and falls on its side ala the Dirty Old Man from Laugh-In.]
Vos teneo officium eram periculosus ut vos recipero is.
While the beer routine made a good demonstration, Gross said he expects the system to have many useful real-world applications.
I don't need it any more useful than that.
Come to think of it, is there anything more useful for a laptop-on-a-trolley to do?
(Remember, it has no arms - hang on, how did it fetch my beer?)
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(if you're still looking for the point, it was back there, in the post. </sig>)
I would definitely build one of these things and epoxy a bong holder, nug jar, and lighter holder to it. Then I would never have to leave the couch again. Well, 'cept to use the bathroom...
"HAL, come get your daddy high". Yep.
"What is the sound of one belly slapping?"
My amd bot will kick your intel bot up and down the street. Now a beowulf cluster of these would certainly be a party. Droves of robots armed with 802.11 roaming around bumping into each other. It's a far cry from the matrix but we can teach them to be evil!
I'm not exactly sure how this can be useful since the "robot" has no arms.
How about R2-D2? Sure, he has little tools for welding and grabbing sausages from Yoda, but he doesn't have any really useful arms. Most of his best roles were acting as a big mobile laptop that could help navigate spaceships and hack into the Death Star. As well as provding some comic relief. I bet he could play MP3's too.
My next sig will be ready soon, but friends can beat the rush!
Sounds like the ultimate bachelors tool to me:
-you can train it to get you a new beer (with the robot arm), doesn't need any explanation.
-you can train it to recognize places and objects: really handy if you drank too much of those beers. "where the hell is my bedroom? - please follow me sir.." or "what's the name of the broad in my bedroom?"
-you can have it send email: "send got sick excuse email #34 to work"
-you can have it play mp3's: it can also recognize people, combine those two and next time a skirt walks into your place it'll start playing your 70s-sweet-luvvin' mp3's (already did that, just clap my hands twice to start it)
basicly it can do a lot of things a girlfriend can do, some people will find this highly argueable and they will come up with things like sex and stuff. Well I suspect you can have handsfree pr0n-session with the thing as well. (Or with the thing and your girlfriend at the same time and even record at the same moment).
Remember the autodialer Homer Simpson was using? It called Professor Frink, he recognized his creation and ordered it to come home. Legs popped out and it walked out of the house. Homer dragged it back into the house.
Ralph Wiggam Zen Master!
A seeing robot could be a useful companion for a blind person, for example, or a sophisticated security camera.
Finally someone thinking of those poor, lonely security cameras. It breaks my heart, I'm telling you.
Pokéthulhu
Gotta catch you all!
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Dont need to lug my ol heavy laptop now.
I'll just train it to recognize and follow me to work.
seriously how hard would it be to build a r2d2 shell for one of theese things that would rock. you could use a vacum cleaner case or a trash can and mod it to look like r2d2 and mount this robot/laptop inside of it plus you could add the robotic arm and for serving drinks make a little table thingy like rtd2 used in jabbas ship to serve drinks.
heh the chicks would really dig that
Tech: Hello, Toshiba technical support.
Client: Uhhh, I put my laptop in one of those robot kits. Now its rolling around the house, screaming that its alive and not to "disassemble Johnny five".
CLICK
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?