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A Piece-By-Piece Guide to the Most Advanced Bots

Posted by michael on from the terminator dept.

XopherMV cuts-and-pastes from Wired: "In an article from Wired, 'Consider the progress of just the past 15 years. There are now robots that can get around on two legs, participate in simple conversations, and manipulate objects in rudimentary ways. Of course, we don't yet have a bot that can navigate downtown Manhattan, tie its shoelaces, or even tell a chair from a desk. MIT's Cynthia Breazeal holds out hope that within five years, robots will cross a critical threshold, becoming partners rather than tools - in other words, we'll have friends, not appliances.'" Reader ptorrone adds: "In Los Angeles, CA at the Century Plaza Hotel for the 4Site conference, our favorite robot vacuum/military supplier, iRobot, showed off the tactical mobile robot! The 'Tactical mobile Robot' has its own brochure and site: www.packbot.com. The rad thing about this platform is its skateboard design, where it appears to support various plug-in modules. Here are some photos of the packbot!"

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  1. toilet seat by TamMan2000 · · Score: 1, Troll

    No true feminist would demand that the seat be put down. Only hypocrytical 'feminists' who are actually female supremacists (and just as bad as the men they criticize so much) demand that.

    Real feminist demand that women register for the selective service, and that men get paternitiy leave. In other words they demand equality.

    --
    "I'll have a Guinness, no wait, make that a Coors Light" -Grad student I work with, who shall remain anonymous...
    1. Re:toilet seat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      All feminists demand women's-rights, They are all headed to hell. Woman was made for man and not the other way around, wives are to obey their husband in all things.

      (On a side not what idiot would marry a rebellious woman? If they want sex... well nowadays it's free)

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