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Social Robot?

Posted by michael on from the please-and-thank-you dept.

smashr writes "Researchers are currently putting the finishing touches on robots that will be attending the AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence) conference this year as part of the AAAI robot challenge. In addition to robots wearing tuxedos and serving drinks, several robots designed to actually register themselves will be participating in the conference. One such robot is GRACE, being built by Carnegie Mellon University and the Naval Research Lab (among others). GRACE features a digital face and speech recognition to interact with people attending the conference. (She even runs Linux!) Her goal is to register for the conference, give a speech and answer questions. Stories at: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, CNN.com, and USA Today."

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  1. Slashcode.com has banned the anonymous coward! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    After a night of unmoderated trolling at slashcode.com, the site janitors were forced to disable AC posting. This is the best lameness filter they will ever make.

    Still want to run Slashcode?

    Oh yeah, Maxtor isn't Western Digital Taco.

  2. superman 3 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    michael needs an ass-raping from that bitch in superman 3

  3. Important step for Science. by tps12 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Someone built a robot that can wear a tuxedo and serve drinks? What's that, the Dean Martin test?

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    Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
  4. ARTI-Mac by edrugtrader · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i still think my pathetic attempt at AI when i was 15 is till the best ever made.

    ARTI-Mac is an artificial mack daddy. he runs big johnny's pub in my video game virtual pimp (written in QuickBasic 4.5)

    you go in the bar and "talk to the man behind the counter" then it opens up an Dr. Sbatso type session where you talk about guns, drugs and rap music. it was the inspiration for my online game which is still down due to TYAN!! if you don't believe me about the TYAN boards, just read this thread, they are blowing up left and right.

    lets hope GRACE was made with and ASUS!

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  5. Re:Robots in tuxes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OMG!!! STFU!!! LOLOLOLOLO!@!@#!@!

    -lf

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  6. Re:She runs linux eh? by Random+Bystander · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    man bash

  7. Re:She runs linux eh? by teamhasnoi · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    You forgot to fsck. Fsck. Fsck. Fsck! Fsck!! FSCK! FSCK!! FSCK!!!!! FSCK!! FSCK! Fsck!! Fsck! Fsck. Fsck. fsck.

    ahhh.

  8. "She has a nice personality..." by Picass0 · · Score: 1, Offtopic


    Wow. I mean, she may be nice, but put a bag over that head! In fact, put one over yours in case hers falls off!

  9. Re:She runs linux eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Surprised she hasn't been hacked yet...blah

  10. You can't AC post at SlashCode.com! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does anyone see the irony in this? The site that hosts the forum for the crappy code behind Slashdot is so crappy, the only way to protect it from trolling is to disable AC posting. The site janitors didn't even bother to implement IP bans or a time limit on AC posts. These jerks even removed the offensive posts. AC posting will be banned here soon.