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Feral Robot Dogs
stinkypig sent in a blurb about Feral Robot Dogs, assorted modifications of the commercial AIBO dogs to be "more useful". For various definitions of useful. See also a discussion on smartmobs.com.
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My dreams of one day owning a real-live (sorta) Dyno-Mutt are closer to fruition!
Bring on the Rat Thing!
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
Well I botched that one...shoulda used the preview button I guess... should have read: Do Paraniod Androids Dream Of Electric [Feral Dogs] ? read this sequel to Phillip K. Dick's masterpiece novel...in store's now! i guess i lost that funny mod!
****--- A fortune cookie once told me the meaning of life...so I ate it. ---****
... It's about time someone did something useful with these things.
A local newsagent is selling a series of these horrid mags with a bit of a robot on the cover, collect them all and build it, sort of a thing. I can just imagine how proud I'd be to watch my lad's robot savage the postie ...
"By Grabthar's Hammer, what a savings."
eating-steaks-that-grow-on-trees dept?? Comon Micheal, We know its early but this title is ++ungood.
--sig fault--
Now we need some feral NanoDogs!
Of course, the waste may be hazardous... or at least nanosmelly. I definitely want a pack of NanoDobermans protecting me from the other nanobots.
hmmm, I feel a rock band coming on...
This Like That - fun with words!
How about frigging feral robot dogs with frigging laser beams on their heads?
Yeah baby!
Alan.
Under poop and scoop laws would you have to follow around one of these with an anti-static baggie?
On a more serious note - it's always interesting to see explorations of behaviour in robotics (since future robots used for autonomous exploration of planetary surfaces and such will likely need different programming than the traditional robot (many of which would actually be closer to teleoperated machines than robots as they rely on human instruction for just about everything.
It reminds me to some degree of some sci-fi stories exploring AI and von neumann type machines interacting in such a way to create robotic "evolution". Which makes you further wonder - one day could obsolete robots be considered endangered species? (Look over there... it's one of the last VIC-20's left in the wild!)
You don't put the laser on the robot dogs head.
You put the laser in the dog's nose.
www.eFax.com are spammers
Give me a Back massage with 3-D solid mapping?
since that other site "contains 'artsy' stuff, and doesn't include technical tidbits."
I wanna know if I can make it give me back rubs...
and no I don't want to talk about the implications or the websites and spam that would be sent out!
"Hot Young Aibo Bestiality Sensual Massage Pics In Your E-mail Everyday!"
Hmmm maybe theres a Niche Market there somewhere
1.?
2.Profit!!!
moo.
Anyone else read that as "Federal Robot Dogs?"
Seriously, I was starting to wonder about the airports.
"It's a very tangled subsystem." --Windows kernel guru
Also, noisier, smellier and more expensive to run.
Sam Waterston and I tried to warn you all, but you wouldn't listen!
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
In a related vein, I'm working on Angry Fish. In addition to the first fish that cries out in pain, I am working on a school of seven Linux-controlled fish, which will soon be decrying their position in life.
Maybe I should stop reading slashdot. Just when I finally stopped worrying about fake monkey automotans now I have to stress over feral robot dogs.
Will the madness never end?
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball(TM)
Programming it to hump the legs of attractive women?
I read Federal Robot Dogs at first and immediately a picture of Janet Reno popped into my head.
(shudders)
using System.Awesome;
"We have an order to shut down that grotesque web server. Where is it!"
"In the killer robot... over there. I forgot the password, you'll have to shut him down manually."
"Grrrrrrrrrrrr"
"Nice doggie..."
Novel theory: Modern Man evolved from psychopath
As long as the tree-hugging hippies don't give
me any shit when I mod the thing.
> Sony does not people modding thier robot dog.
Uh, toss me a verb. "does not mind people modding their robot dog?" "does not want people modding their robot dog?" "does not kill people modding their robot dog?"
- "That's just the kind of fuzzy-headed liberal thinking that leads to being eaten."
from smartmobs.com:
An emblematic feature of the adapted dogs is placement of the webcams in the non-barking end of the dogs
1. Wild dogs evolve
2. Humans domesticate wild dogs.
3. Humans create domesticated robotic dogs
4. Robotic dogs go wild
5. Wild robotic dogs tame humans???
Whats it gonna do? Lick its electric nuts?
-Y.T., Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
AIBO ate my Baby!
"Sony does not _____ people modding their robot dog."
Pick whatever you like!