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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."
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Fuck you for talking about Segue-Gay. I hate them. I hate Peter Gagriel Gabriel, the cock smoker.
Your college sucks.
No it doesnt act any different, but when you try to have sex with a machine that was designed to be "ridden" in another way. Perv.
Up to 250? Dang, your fat is is probably a few hundred too much for that thing then.
You dont research anything, retard, and your commentary is fucking pulp.
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Would you fuck
if asked you to fuck
Would you cum
and never look at my back
Would you cry
if you saw me chizzing
would you fuck my soul tonight
Would you tremble
if I touched your buttpipe
Would you laugh
oh please tell me this
Now would you die
for the one you fuck
Hold me in your ass tonight
I can be your Yoda Doll baby
I can kiss away the pain-in-the-ass
I will anally spelunk you forever
You can take my breath away
Would you swear
that you'll always be anally mined
Would you lie like a yellow mattress
would you remember
My anus be have I lost my mind
I don't care you're here tonight
I can be your Yoda Doll baby
I can lick away the stains
I will stand by you forever
You can take my breath away
Ohhh I just wanna hold your cock,
I just wanna hold your balls,
oh yeah!
My anus be have I lost my mind
I don't care you're in my ass tonight
I can be your Yoda Doll baby
I can lick away the stains
(Oh yeah)
I will stand by you forever
You can lick my stains away
I can be your Yoda Doll
I can lick away the stains
And I will stand by you forever
You can take my feces away
You can take my feces away
I can be your Yoda Doll
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There's a guy on my campus who's got a Segway, and he rides it around all the time. He's gotta be 35, a little overweight. Seeing this geek motoring around on his Segaway has got to be the gayest thing my eyes have ever seen. The only way it could possibly be more gay would be if two homosexual men were having anal intercourse on the Segway, also. Yes, it's that gay.
comments. In fact, all the hard work of real engineering in this "door-opening robot" was done by the Segway people in designing the inertial feedback control systems that stabilize the thing. The Hackers seem to have used this as the basis for a glorified Lego MindStorms project. Even the referenced article in MIT's Tech Review concedes that the really clever bit is in the Segway's "dynamic balancing abilities."
Maybe if MIT would spend less time developing the egos of its students and more time on real engineering topics like control systems then they might actually turn out some useful engineers instead of self-serving, thin-skinned, xenophobic geeks incapable of working with management or peers.
Maybe we should give them a break since this is the AI Lab, and therefore a bunch of "computer scientists"--as distinct from engineers--so they probably have never solved any differential equations in their lives.
Founders of AI fundamentals like Norbert Wiener and Herbert Simon, were they alive today, would be sad to see that their brilliant initial insights have been reduced to the commercialization of substandard "robot" vacuum cleaners--that is, if their contributions were even part of the MIT AI curriculum, which they clearly are not when the department consists of mathematically-challenged, system-engineering-free computer scientists. But then, neither Wiener nor Simon were graduates of the over-hyped Institute...