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Segway-Based Robot Opens Doors
Roland Piquepaille writes "In this short article, Technology Review tells us that Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have built a new robot, named Cardea, which is able to push open doors and has the bottom half of a Segway scooter. Cardea will be five feet tall with a torso, three arms, a variety of sensors, and a human-like head with expressive features and vision, and mounted on a Segway base. More details and references are contained in this review which also includes several pictures. For even more details, go to the Cardea Project homepage."
Holy %$#@.... it's the robot from "Short Circuit" !!
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I for one welcome our door-opening overlords!
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This is such a good thing, as somehow nobody has ever been able to invent a door that opens on its own. But now Johnny 5 comes to the rescue!
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Yup, Apparently it should be pretty damn hard to fall off, but our good ole president somehow managed to do it. They decided to recall a bunch of them after their batteries went bad. "The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall Friday, saying that three people had been injured. One suffered a head wound and needed stitches. " http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/26/tech/mai n575347.shtml
But what if it runs into stairs?
Ah, the most fearsome killing machine in the universe, foiled by a staircase.
Well, at least this robot can thank its lucky stars it isn't made by gluing tennis ball halves all over the outside of an upsidedown dustbin.
KFG
- Five feet tall
- 3 arms
- a variety of sensors
- mounted on a segway base
Oh and let's throw in a human-like head so that people can feel at home with it rolling around...
Innovation I tells ya!
How scarey would *that* have been to be seen wandering down the highway on Halloween....
Simon.
Physicists get Hadrons!
Two Cardeas roll into a bar..
..which is really stupid since the second one should have seen it.
Harald
It doesn't have a brain the size of a planet, but it's job is suitable for Marvin.
I would hope it would come pre-programmed and already know how to balance. Last thing you want is your shiny nice new robot falling over and smashing your priceless ming vase
Rus
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Cardea will be five feet tall with a torso, three arms...
Dare I ask where the placement of that third arm is?
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Distressed damsel: Help, help! These new door opening robots have gained self-awareness and are trying to take over the world!
Hero: Quick, run upstairs!
...without ending up in an endless loop?
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
Does this qualify as a pusher or shover robot?
-brain
does it derive pleasure from opening doors for you, and satisfaction from closing them with the knowledge of a job well done?
thank you, the marketing division of the sirius cybernetics corporation!
- doctea
a dog. Forget the terrors of nanotechnology run amuck. I'm scared of dogs acquiring the ability to open refrigerator doors. Cataclysmic chaos. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Karma? What's that again?
"Open the [front] door Hal."
"I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that."
You all are missing the point of this new Segway-based robot.
;) ;) ;)
If you don't already look suffiently dorky riding around on a Segway, now you can have a matching robot servant to open doors so you don't have to EVER dismount.
A $10,000+ creation that opens doors. It won't stand a chance when I release my $20,000+ robot that digs holes and fills them back in.