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Two-Legged Home Robot, Coming Soon To Japan
An anonymous reader submits "Two Japanese companies, (ZMP corp., and Mizuno, a athletic goods manufacturer), announced that they will start selling the first two-legged robot for home use. The robot, called nuvo, will retail for 500,000 yen. It wil be able to understand 1,000 (Japanese) words, dance, and allow the owner to contact the robot via 3G phones."
Anyone care to fansub this article?
Nice picture though.
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War driving to conquer japan with mad freaking robots .... hopefully they'll not think about bluetooth ... :)
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I for one welcome our new overlord nuvo
notify the authorities if the owner doesn't move for more than a specified time. So.. the police arrive everytime betty goies for a nap?
Just what the porn industry needs. Wait till the makers of Real Doll create a version that walks, talks....and fucks.
Actually, I might pay for that. *grin*
Life is not for the lazy.
Small problem there, it doesn't have any hands.
It will be able to understand 1,000 words, dance, and allow you to contact it via 3G phones
sounds like most girls you meet in clubs today...
I asked for a refund - and got my monkey back.
Why do you want it to talk?
but before I invest my hard-earned yen, I have to ask...
... does it run Linux?
Michael Flatley I'm not, but I - even in my inherent inability to grasp the simplest dance steps - could hardly call that dancing.
PS - For those wondering about the video post slashdotting, imagine an akward looking slot machine with pointlessly complex legs wobbling aimlessly across a stage in a rythm and fashion in no way whatsoever resembling the happy-love-fun-time-gogogo japanese techno music playing in the background.
Then call that "dancing".
A sequel has just been announced for the sequel to the critically acclaimed movie, You Got Served. This film, entitled You Got Served Again, will reportedly center around a group of dancing teenage robots trying to prove their worth while dealing with the challenges they encounter growing up on the tough assembly lines of Japan.
Oh sweet a new era of battlebots...
not only do the bots slug it out, you also get to hear their masters yelling commands in japanese!
hmmm how do you say "ROBOT RIGHT CROSS" in japanese
it'd be cooler if the robots could speak, then they could trash talk each other....it'd be a half hour of action and crazy talk
so not that much change to read the headline
:)
"hacked robot kills faimly"
im not sure if thats a godo thign or a bad thing
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Evidently, its weight is 2.5 kilometers.
It doesn't need hands! Robots eat old people's medicine! Better get your Robot Insurance from Old Glory....
Wow, the Japanese really do have a different culture...
The BSD article on the front page of slashdot.jp has 51 comments, and none of them are modded down to -1
something [jishiki?]
Mmmmhh... free jishiki...
I think the original quote had something missing.
The mean age of 69 to 71 year-olds in Japan is approaching 70
Predictive text is shiv!
What about the NG-5? Surely something like this would be an ideal high end application of such a product?
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For the metrically challenged "39-centimetre-tall" is roughly 16 inches high. Woohoo. That'll scare burglars, especially with those blue balls on the end of its arms. For that price, I think I'll stick to the low-tech version that comes with an environmently friendly wind-up key.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Besides, Pusher and Shover robots don't need hands. (Perhaps for the bread part.) They are here to protect you from the Terrible Secret of Space.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
http://www.irobotnow.com ;)
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What the Japanese haven't told you is that they plan on turning their elderly INTO robots. That should solve the problem handily.
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
"I found it amusing that Japanese engineers imprinted what is known as their stereotypical behavior (bowing) to the robot. You say, "Hey, Robot! Apologize!" and this robot will bow in front of you without knowing what he did wrong. What a nice pet."
Interestingly enough... my girlfriend already has a robot identical to this!!! *sigh*
Boy, time to polish off my knowledge of Scott Adam's text adventure commands, where half the "fun" is trying to determine the right command for the job:
> insert key
Sorry. I can't do that.
> put key
Where?
> place the key in the damn lock you bloody parser!!!
Sorry. I don't know what that means.
> this stupid game sucks
Sorry. I don't know what that means.
> unlock door
You use the key to unlock the door. Score +1 (11 of 500).
I wonder how long before you lose it and boot the robot across the room because the parser responded (yet again) with "Does not compute".
Robots will become even more useful and desirable when they can start doing particalar tasks:
Wash dishes
Take out trash
Scrub toilet
Change cat box
Vacuum floor
Do laundry
Just make sure you don't get the programming mixed up:
Scrub cat
Vacuum dishes
Take out toilet
etc.
What they want is sexy, anime babe robots with which they can have sex. The first real, affordable sex robot will sell millions. Porn drove the acceptance of the VCR and the Internet. It will drive VR and robotics. Accept it.
--- Ban humanity.
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--- Ban humanity.
it takes on the 'big wooden rollers' challenge on Takeshi's Castle ("Extreme Elimination" on SpikeTV in US). Let's see it do a face-plant on one of those logs and then smile when it gets out of the mud. Then I'll be impressed.
I'd have a personalized plate on my car, but "toxic bachelor" won't fit into 7 letters.
A robot that can't get you stoned? Think I'll pass...
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
Yeah, but with an opensource robot, by the time you configured him to get you a beer, you could have been at the bar for hours.
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