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LivingCreatures- The Beginning Of 'I, Robot?'
An Anonymous Reader writes "LivingCreatures.com has released several new photos of the humanoid robot platform that it developed for the USC Interaction Lab. The yet to be named robot is about the same size as an 18-month-old child and will serve as a human-robot interaction (HRI) testbed for studies involving imitation, learning, and the effects that interaction with humanoid robots has on children."
.. umm, do they come with a routine to retrieve beer from the fridge?
God, i hope so.
** "It's not my job to stand between the people talking to me, and the ones listening to me." -- Pego the Jerk
You realize it was a book, right?
I, for one, welcome our new 18-month-old child-sized robot overlords.
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I can just see it now, "It looks angry. Oh no! I wonder what I did to make it mad?"
Robot changes positions. "It's happy! Now if I can only keep it happy."
"Oh oh, it's looking mad again."
Ok, it's been a slow day.
Booook? What's a book? Are you implying there is some other form of entertainment than what we are allowed from the benevolant movie and tv people?
Ads are broken.
I used to have the neighbors named the Jetsons, and they had a robot maid. Not only did it look like it was designed in the 60s or 70s, but it made all sorts of "beep" and "boop" noises. The thing just wasn't very quite.
Not only that, I seem to remember that it would make wise-cracks at its owners from time to time.
I think I'll wait on the robot maid. Maybe a new roomba to hold me over.
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The yet to be named robot is about the same size as an 18-month-old child . . .
It *does* have a name:Twikki.
Duh.
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.
Um... You realize this is slashdot, right? Book? Ha! When people can't even be bothered to RTFA....
it learns how to play chess... then we're really screwed.
Talking armadillo...
What did you think I was gonna say?
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Well, I hope it's not getting us closer to 'I, Robot'. Remember, the Azimov robots used positronic brains. Even a simple headache could result in the destruction of a city block.
I'm not buying a robot until they produce one that runs on beer, insults my friends, and steals from people.
That sounds naive . . . instead of "cow tipping", teenagers would go "robot tipping" . . . knocking over poor defenseless janitorial custodial and landscaping robots with extreme prejudice.
Lumbering machines are meant to withstand abuse from vandals and pranksters . . .
...I RTFA'ed (yes, I'm odd that way), and the thing has no red LEDs what-so-ever. Since red LED's are required to set the evil bit in humanoid robots, we are all safe.
Who is John Cabal?
But is the voice Mel Blanc's?
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
That's got to be one of the most wimpy robots ever. Why can't I get the T-800 from Terminator? I would happily have either the fleshed up Austrian look or the skinless metal skeleton with the glowing red eyes. Why do these robot researchers think that I want the pansy-bot?
But what's your average geek going to choose?
1) Interact with another human being.
or
2) A robot maid that doesn't go through his porn.
Hooking up some charged-up capacitors on the robots' exteriors will quickly solve that problem, methinks. 1... 2... 3... Pu-Bzzzzt!
"The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces." --Aldo Leopold (Paraphrased)
I hope when these robots take over they don't leave as many plot holes as there were in the film. And that Will Smith isn' the savior of man.
in bed.