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Caltech and JPL Build 50ft Robot

Posted by michael on from the danger-will-robinson dept.

OctaneZ writes "NASA announced that they will enter, in cooperation with Caltech, a 50ft robot in the Rose Bowl Parade - unfortunately it will be made entirely of flowers and will not attempt to enslave the crowd. However, they have mounted a camera to it, which will allow you to view the parade from the top of their creation."

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  1. Er... by arodland · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I fail to see how anything "made entirely of flowers" could possibly qualify as a robot, unless we've made great advances in DNA-based computing and animating plants.

    Or did someone maybe mean it would be covered in flowers?

  2. yeah right by BortQ · · Score: 4, Insightful
    it will be made entirely of flowers and will not attempt to enslave the crowd

    famous last words...

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  3. I, Florbot by ScentCone · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This just seems a little too much like pandering to some sort of anachronistic

    humanoid-shaped-robots = space = the-future

    right out of the 1950's. I'm guessing some baby boomers might think it's amusing, but most kids will sort of scratch their heads and think, "but... it doesn't DO anything!"

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