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Fujitsu To Ship Linux Powered Robot in July

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bop-whirr-zoop dept.

Radical Rad writes "The Register is reporting that Fujitsu will be shipping a consumer robot in July called HOAP for Humanoid Open Architecture Platform and it will be running a real-time version of Linux. They plan to release info on the controls system to make it possible to program using C/C++. The 7 kg robot is wired with USB and can have an optional 802.11b transceiver." This thing could be a lot of fun to program and send around the house.

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  1. Re:The programming better include... by Freston+Youseff · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There was nothing honourable or decent about Asimov. He was a convicted child molester under house arrest between the years of 1983 and 1984. Can't you tell from his novels, from the suggestive sexual nature assigned to young persons in his books, that the man's a pervert? God knows we're lucky he hadn't tread into the realm of roboto-humaniod sexual encounters. Still, it makes me nervous that young disaffected youth idolise such a man, who wrote limericks about detonating explosives in the vaginal cavities of women, and murder of infants. Seek help, please.

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