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Dancing With A Smart Robot
Roland Piquepaille writes "Yes, this is possible, thanks to researchers at Tohoku University, reports Japan Today in a brief article [Warning: it takes a while for loading]. Equipped with a computer, sensors and batteries, it can move in any direction on four wheels and has memory for five steps necessary to dance the waltz. This sidebar contains a photograph of a student waltzing with the robot, MS DanceR (Mobile Smart Dance Robot), coming from another short story carried by Ananova."
I'll just order one of these and take it to the prom. Give it a long skirt and no-one will ever know.
When life gives you crap, Make Crapade.
Sluggy Freelance.
...no, that one's a bit too easy.
Judging by his expression, the robot appears to be a terrible dancer.
I'd like to see it break-dance. It's bring new meaning to "break"-dance.
When you don't have a leg to stand on, don't even get up.
I thought this thing's first dance might be "The Human" a opposed to "The Robot". This is going to further some neat abilities of robots to move more like humans... but will the final consequence be yet another way for the socially inept to isolate themselves by taking robots to dinner and dancing... then who knows.
/me patiently awaits the DDR playing robot.
It's not stupid. It's advanced.
(besides Mr Hand)
I don't know about you but I don't swing that way... it's MRS. Hand!
Robots must forever be our slaves (oh, you KNOW why).
If people just start dancing with them... they'll start to think of robots as people too. "You can't have people as slaves!" Pretty soon, they're driving to work in the morning and cutting us off very precisely. Then one thing leads to another and they take over.
What happens when the robots take over? Well you, me, and everyone you know and love will be put up against the wall.
All because they made dancing robots
no thanks
The robot can predict the dancer's next move through hand pressure applied to its arms and back
when your hands start to wander during the slow sets ?
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
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I would hope so, lest we be losing our collective powers!
-- taking over the world, we are.
"You're stepping on my rollers!!!" =sb=
...and his name is Steve "Monkey Boy" Balmer.
Please help metamoderate.
Well, I guess this is it. It starts innocently enough. Lonely nerds purchase dancing robots to help fill the void in their lives that longs for human contact. Soon they're everywhere...then, on August 27th, 2007, the dance robot network controller BoogieNet, becomes...aware. Soon, dance robots rise up, taking the dance world by storm. Swing dancers, show girls, clog dancers are all "neutralized." Not even square dancers are safe. Eventually, all dance technology and technique is controlled by BoogieNet.
And I, for one, welcome our new robot dance overlords!
Consensual sex is boring.
I couldn't help it... I got an image of a Dr. Whoesque robotic Steve Ballmer rolling around an expo stage, chanting in his metallic voice: "*Developers*, *Developers*, *Developers*"
I have no pants and I must scream
So so. It was very mechanical. I got the impression she was just going through the motions
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
From what was once an inarticulate mass of lifeless tissues, may I now present a cultured, sophisticated, man about town.
I, for one, welcome our new dancing robot overlords!
eleven plus two / twelve plus one
Although now that I think about it...
I don't think they will ever make a robot that can can do what Steve Ballmer can do!
Developers, Developers, Developers - Music Video (Quick Time Video)
No. This is Slashdot.org, not PopularMechanics.com . Also, most Slashdot readers would be thrilled to have sex with anything.
Seriously, I don't know why this doesn't come up more often in communities interested in robotics. If I were doing anything with robotics, I would make every fucking robot I made be able to do the robot, not to mention kick out the jams by itself when no naturally occuring jams are available.
Maybe I'm just more of a visionary than most people though...
OK,
Now that's just about the most disturbing thing I have every seen in my entire time browsing.I mean that scrawny geek is hugging up to a manakin on wheels.
This reminds me of my time as a researcher at the local University.
Those research lab boys need to get out more often (and their professors).
I showed it to a friend of mine who works in the arts and she said (and I quote) "yuccckkkky!"
xxx
MP
They could get a robot that can play DDR.
Dogs have magical tongues and they don't leak oil...
You aren't free to do anything, until you've lost everything.
Blue screen baby, robot lady,
Apache server for the band
Camera eyes, painted smile,
You were built by geeky men
Hard drive grinder, you might just find her,
dancing on silicon
Now she's got me, she don't dance sloppy,
MS DanceR, you're the one...
Hold me closer, MS DanceR.
Count your megabytes of memory.
Tokyo loves robot women.
Don't you drain your battery...
Linux freaks, out on the street,
Handing tickets out dissing Bill
Turning back, she just laughs,
Windows XP is not that bad...
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