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Build a Robot out of a Car?

SomeRobotGuy writes "A researcher in the U.K. is in the process of building an autonomous biped robot out of a Mini Cooper r50. Its functions are controlled by six computers running RTLinux and it's powered by an internal combustion engine. And the thing's not tiny, at over 10 feet tall! The site includes videos showing some impressive results."

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  1. This reminds me of a good story actually by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Today, I was lifting an old carpet, as we have a damp problem. Underneath there were hundreds of slugs and worms. My wife and I picked up about 40 slugs and put them in a pair of my wife's panties. I then put the panties on. The feeling was amazing. I got a huge erection and I could feel them sliding over my glans, and round my balls. Eventually I could feel one going up my bum. I knew I would come soon, so I let my wife tie me up, with my hands and feet speadeagled and attached to some furniture. She then took the panties down and about 15 of the slugs were crawling over my cock and balls. I came, spurting out loads of cum all over the poor things, but still couldn't move. My wife then took the other slugs out of the panties and placed them on my cock. She was careful to put some of them right on the opening of my cock, which was now covered in a mixture of sperm and glistening goo from the slugs. She opened up my arse and tried to put one in there too. I got hard again quite quickly as I thought of these slimy little things crawling over me. I imagined them biting me. One seemed to be trying to enter my uretha and this caused me to come again.
    That was 4 hurs ago. My cock is now very itchy, but I am about to give them another "feed".

  2. SHIT the TROLLTALK FORUM is OFFLINE... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    0wn3d by ~_+SemaLtric+_~

    see http://www.golala.com/forums/index.php?mforum=trol ltalk&act=idx for details.

  3. Winner already known by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think the DARPA team did this, it's the Hummer thingy. And I said this in the DARPA thread, the DARPA "contest" is a sham, there is only one vehicle that can win, and it seems to be funded by guess what? Defese contractors. Suprise.

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  4. RHAT stock SCOX stock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  5. THE BEATLES WERE USED TO DESTROY MANKIND by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (The Five Judges)
    (Judge T., Judge B., Judge S., Judge M. and Judge K.)

    VERDICT
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    The Rock revolution happened in the Sixties (6, number of the Beast). It came from Liverpool, that was the port base to the Titanic, destroyed by God because of the arrogant insult of captain Smith (also from Liverpool): "Not even God can sink my ship" (not only the captain, but also the rest of the crew and even the orchestra playing at the Titanic were from Liverpool). The Rock revolution came from the nation that allows a church to be changed to a pub or to a dance room or to a recording studio full of drug addicts, homosexuals and lunatics (as that of George Martin, ally of the Beatles).
    It came from the nation whose king Enrique VIII adulterated the Bible so that divorce could be allowed and in this way be able to give loose rein to the many divorces from his wives and subsequent murdering of the same ones and to whom God provided a wife with six fingers as abomination (Anne Boleyn)...once again 6, number of the Beast....
    It is interesting to observe that this nation is nicknamed "the Devil's Island". As the epithet of the government of Satan on that nation, the center of London, the so well-known Piccadilly Circus, takes it's name from an old brothel (the "Piccadilla House" which means "The House of Sin"), disappeared nowadays.

    The antichrist John Lennon, one of the Devil's main puppets to destroy family, social and moral values and to begin the disintegration of mankind, did hit Stuart Sutcliffe (the first bass player of the Beatles) in the head with a club repeatedly in Hamburg. Some months later Sutcliffe died from brain haemorrhage because of John Lennon's bruises. John Lennon entered stardom being a murderer.
    The same demons that made captain Smith say "Not even God can sink my ship" spoke from antichrist John Lennon (from Liverpool, base port to the Titanic) saying: "Christianity is on the go. It will vanish and shrink. We are more popular than Jesus and Pope"....That was the day that GOD'S CURSE fell upon the world of Rock.
    One week after that declaration, ONLY ONE WEEK LATER, Brian Epstein, forger of the Beatle farce, died from an overdose. From then on, the Beatles began to get involved in false religions and to preach them to the world.
    John Lennon's divorce followed, as well as his entering the world of black magic, as deeply as to buy the apartment. where the "Rosemary's baby" had been filmed, previous property of Roman Polansky, and in that same apartment John Lennon had a room upholstered with black silk where he used to do his black magic operations.
    Came the disintegration of the Beatles' minds with LSD which has caused, among others, schizophrenic lyrics such as "I am the Walrus" and incoherent schizophrenic musical expositions like "Revolution number 9".
    At the same time, the devil acted through his other main puppets with "Sympathy for the devil" that was when the pact of the Rolling Stones with Satan took the life of the founder of the group, the guitarist Brian Jones (who refused to be a puppet of the devil), murdered by people sent by Mick Jagger, another assassin.
    Antichrist John Lennon followed the Devil's strategy writing lyrics such as "God is a concept by which we measure our pain...I don't believe in Jesus, etc., etc.," (God) and "and no religions too..." (Imagine).
    Antichrist John Lennon wanted to compete with Jesus Christ, and so he grew a beard and started to make a bogus role of Christ together with Yoko Ono at the Amsterdam Hilton hotel proclaiming "Peace", being then when he was visited by the Canadian journalist who ridiculized and admonished him wanting to know about what Lennon meant when he wrote in the lyrics of "The ballad of John and Yoko": "the way things are going, they're going to crucify me...",
    The CURSE OF GOD upon John Lennon carried on with all type of miseries and distresses which made Lennon give the interview to the "Rolling Stone" magazine (today condensed in the "Lennon remembers" book) where

  6. They can fake a dead webserver as well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    even if they think that people will fall for their marketing stunt, take people for fools then expect you to buy their product, i dunno who is more stupid , the ones that fall for it or the marketeers that dream up even more innovative ways to mug you off

  7. John Carmacks balancing software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Man, i hope carmack does'nt see this or we'll have robots taking over the wolrld in 5 years.

    oh well, atleast we get doom 3...

  8. Unsympathetic moderators by some+guy+I+know · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Redundant?
    "The Only Druid"'s post has the same time as "TapTapTheChisler"'s, and the post number is only one higher; i.e., they were posted at nearly the same time.
    How could he/she have possibly known about the other post?
    Give the guy/gal a break.
    Metamods mod the "Redundant" mod unfair.

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