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On the Gripping Hand
eek_the_kat writes "The Sensor Fusion Project at Ishikawa Hashimoto Laboratory has developed a high speed visual feedback system called SPE-256. It allows the robot to track fast randomly moving objects and grasp them (movies here). The applications seem endless!
I have seen many robot mpegs as of late, many courtesy of /., but these have to be some of the coolest I have ever come across. A must see."
Extended Warranty? How can I lose!
Well, once they get out a waterproof version, I'll program one to catch fish. Yum, yum. Can't wait.
Rumor has it that the secret behind the robot's technology is actually the Nintendo Power Glove...
That's what the hand will look like that slashes your throat in 2035 because it's more efficient to arm the extermination robots with knives rather than bullets that have to be replaced.
At the Safety Checkpoints, at the mall, at schools they could be seen, light glinting from faceted metal skulls as they scanned all who passed.
It was during a live 5am broadcast one morning of Bush's 8th consecutive term when he'd slurred out an announcement about his "little buddies" helping out in the war against terrorism. A week later, a million robots were killing all life forms that had appendages that could be loosely identified as "arms" due to a coding error that failed to properly identify the context of what coud be construed as a weapon. The last words most people heard for many months was "For the last time, I order you to drop your weapons!"
But even more gruesome scenes were to come when the robots began filtering back to weapons collection centers where they deposited the "weapons" they'd siezed and arranged them by species and appendage. Some of the more creative ones had broken into zoos and aquariums. And while
most of the government officials were partying in another globalist meeting in Zurich, there was noone home to put a halt to the prescripted robot-press event that would automatically photograph the results of the terrorist sweeps.
One of the last images the human race would ever broadcast into space was of a smiling robot holding up a pair of severed, bloody, duck-feet and proclaiming "We must be forever vigilant in our fight against terrorists!"
BILLY!
Stop teasing the robot! You wouldn't like it if researchers kept taking your oblong right parallelipiped!
"Lawyers are for sucks."
- Doug McKenzie
i know from reliable source that this is not an inhouse development. It's just an arm they found in a steel-melting factory, along with a chip they haven't identified yet. And some frozen blubber.
When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
You are confusing yourself with somone who could ever attract a woman!
There is no god
With the advant of such new technologies, I fear many people will find their jobs automated.
Rat catchers, while not such a profession of pride, will now have a hard time finding work once this goes mainstream.
This device is a boon to the rat catcher industry and I would like to personally convey my feelings of grief for those who will now feel the boone new technology brings to their job market.
Joe Bob, a rat catcher since 12, had this to say: "Damn, Pa' always tol me and my brother we was chasin a pipe dream. I knewd I shoulda listened and hopped onto the IT market." (IT standing for Interstate Trucker)
Joe Bob, already forseeing the doomed market, has decided to persue his dreams and earning his MSCE certifications.
Truely a sad day.
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra