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Fujitsu To Ship Linux Powered Robot in July
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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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.
My ultimate dream toy was this big room that had a balcony, in the room would be a scaled down fort, jungle, river, etc... Then, we'd have these little guys that had guns and we could remote control them to fight and have wars and all kinds of cool stuff. Kind of like Rainbow Six, minus the computer part, and scaled down.
::sigh::
o urnal
Anyway, these new thing got my hopes up, until I realized that it doesn't even look like it can fire a gun.
Why the hell would you make a robot that can't fire a gun?
Let me take that one step further, if you are designing a robot, why the hell would you not just give it guns as hands.
It better know karate.
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