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A New Face For Robotics
tanmay writes "Android technology has moved a step forward with the creation of a high-tech polymer called 'f'rubber,' which resembles human skin. Its creator, David Hanson has implemented it in a robot called Hertz, as this report from CNN gives us the details. Another question that the report brings up is the need to make robots resemble humans. Ray Kurzweil thinks Hanson's work is significant because realistic facial movement will play an important role in the way future androids respond to humans, and has the following to say, 'Intelligence significantly below that of normal humans stands out more with a robot that looks strikingly human. This creates the impression of a human with impaired intelligence, which may strike some as disturbing.'"
babies, but i couldn't eat a whole one.
oh I had thought up a much more intresting use for it...
let's play a game of guess the words: *e** ****.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
...is in talking asses. Open the pod bay doors, assy.
I beleive it was some sort of talking pie.
Hey fucktard, Alfred Hi_t_chcock called, he doesn't like the way you spelled his name.
People who support John Kerry are SO HOT! Have you seen his cousin, for instance? Unbelievable! What is it about Kerry supporters that makes them so attractive?
Deaniacs should just go home. Ugly people have no place in politics.
I am an almost ancient 27. I seen many a operating system come an'go. We had 4 bit graphics back in the day and we were darned happy about it too......you kids an yer new fangled Geforce/Raedon/bigger than 128k VRAM graphics.
Yes, with frubber you get frying car instead.
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
You're older than I am. And I remember 2 bit graphics. CGA it was called (Color Graphics Adapter, how's that for a misnomer?), and we had the amazing colors of white, black, ugly purple, and mint/cyan green. And many of those CGA adapters (*cough*PCjr*cough*) ran from shared system memory. That meant that games that said 64K of RAM, actually needed more like ~70K. Bah, 4 bit color. When I got my first EGA machine, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. 640x480 with 16(!) colors! None of them even ugly!
I remember writing a Missile launcher game in BASIC. I cranked up the resolution and played in all the colors I could muster. It was damn cool having to squint to see the two pixel plane fly overhead!
And yes, I know what EBCDIC is. I've even programmed Unisys mainframes that speak it.
COBOL. Now there was a verbose language if I ever saw one. You'd never believe how many iterations of "Business Oriented Lanugages" they went through before settling on "COmmon Business Oriented Language". SNOBOL, ALGOL, Fortran, etc. (Okay, so the last two were math oriented. They were still better than RPG.) It was no wonder that TRON portrayed business people as the bad guys. They kept trying to saddle you with ugly ass job-control OSes.
BTW, you might find it amusing that Unisys mainframes used an OS called (wait for it...) MCP! (Master Control Program) The author of TRON must have been a Burroughs hater.
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
No, no, no. It's Flied Lice, you plick!
:::The Spear in the heart of the Other is the Spear in the heart of You; You are He - Surak of Vulcan:::
Does that also mean that a coporation, as a person, could run for president down there? Please assume the truth: I don't really have a clue about american law.
I can see it now: "Yes president Microsoft, we will definatly have no problem outlawing open source software. Senator SCO's bill to attack all OSS developers around the world with Marines appears to be going well."
OI.
On Arrakis: early worm gets the bird. Magister mundi sum!