Slashdot Mirror
Arm Wrestling Robots Beaten By A Teenage Girl
fembots writes "Despite her lack of strength, training and technique, a 17-year-old girl has bested three robot arm wrestlers in a contest attempted to encourage the development of polymer-based artificial muscles, which can change shape when activated either electrically or with chemicals."
A 17-year-old girl has bested three robot arm wrestlers
Been there. Welcome to the club, robots
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one " -Albert Einstein
Isn't that they lost to a girl, but how all the other robots teased them afterwards.
52 Weeks, 52 Religions with John Hummel
What, you mean all at once?
It took 40 years to get one to walk on two feet. Next up, "Vomiting robot beaten by 6 month old baby."
I, for one, welcome our 17 year old female overlords.
Play Command HQ online
the technology or her peers?
500GB of disk, 5TB of transfer, $5.95/mo
Nice to see our tax dollars being used to beat a 17 year-old. Wait, who won that again?
the fight was over a credit card
A photo of the robot is cool, but I really wanted to see a photo of the girl!
San Francisco Photographers
This is exactly the kind of thing that leads to the motivation for robots to build hoards of rampaging kill-bots.
Letter To Iran
Did she look something like this?
A religious war is an adult version of a fight over who has the best imaginary friend
Bar-Cohen says he hopes the technology improves so that robotic arms can eventually compete against -- and beat -- world-champion arm wrestlers. The artificial muscles could lead to prosthetics and other devices, he says. But for now they will just be useless toys that are completly not newsworthy unless you make some sort of stupid contest thats not really a contest at all.
/. repost's this one. This is the most exciting thing all week! This contracting material has been around for about 12 years now and has finally matured enough to lose to a girl in an arm wrestling match.
God I hope
That robot is gonna need a beer.
To win, the robots may need to choose weaker enemies.
Perhaps they should take a cue from the RIAA and take on 12-year girls.
"The three robot teams are now trying to work out what went wrong."
"You think this plug is important, Lou?"
"Nah."
So the robots must have about the same physique and musculature of the average slashdot reader?
I mod down all the "free iPod"-sig losers.
Never arm wrestle a girl.
If you win, you get made fun of for beating a girl.
If you lose, you get made fun of for losing to a girl.
In this case, you get:
But at the time he thought it would take decades before the technology was ready to match humans. This first contest suggests he may have been right.
Thats almost as bad.
can't sleep slashdot will eat me
This girl could probably beat all of us up. Fear her.
Did you mean to post that comment in the article about the RIAA?
Skynet officials were quoted as saying, "yeah, but she's no Sarah Conner."
This space for rent.
Humanity is 'saved', unless she is Number 6, the next generation Cylon...
Wow. That girl is every geek's dream. Advanced calculus...grr!
Been there. Welcome to the club, robots
Doesn't bode well for BattleMechs, either.
and they seemed so fierce in those novels!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Next time use high pressure hydraulics, and crush this teenage girl's arm. That'll teach her.
The researchers were baffled at this result. "They always beat us in the lab, so I don't understand how this could happen!"
Obviously, the polymer muscles were not controlled with Intel's StrongARM processors. Hook an iPaq up, and THEN rematch!
I'm the Devil the Windows users warned you about.
The scientist were apparently "suprised" at how easily their machines were beat. I'm sure they tested these machines before bringing them to this contest. What this basically means is that the scientist involved are bigger whimps than this girl.
Even with mechanical advantages, geeks are still wimps.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
I feel for all the nerds in her classes. I think girls in engineering is awesome... but they should have to take ugly pills. I still hate that one super hot girl in my CS classes. I know I could have gotten an A if I could stop looking at her.
...putting the only well developed muscle to a good use.
Holy Gods! She's gorgeous, bright, and can protect me from killer robots!
Robot: 00101110011001011010111101011011010110101011010101
--Sir_-_Jeff--
More importantly, where can I get these robot girls? And will they run linux?
:-) )
(just kidding - we all know that there's no such thing as a girl
Erotic is when you use a feather. Exotic is when you use the whole chicken.
Welcome our wimpy, weak Robot Overlords.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
If you can't concentrate, you don't deserve an A ;-p
In my opinion, Scientology is a cult you should avoid.
Yoshimi couldn't let those robots eat me. It'd be tragic if those evil robots win.
Co-founder of GerbilMechs
whatever happened to named?
If you need DNS to resolve her name, she's probably a robot.
17-year-old girl, probably in a sailor suit, beating up robots. Yeah, I think I saw this one.
Right is wrong when left is right.
Wouldn't you?
hi, this is Panna Felson. Sounds like I have a lot of fans on Slashdot. ^__^ If any of you guys would like a powerful, groin-rippin' handjob, just post your email addresses here and I'll get back to ya'll!
Panna
What's a girl?
Your head a splode
I actually feel for her being in a room full of geeks (and now perhaps all of /.) having fantasies of her every time she's within a 10 foot radius (or perhaps when her pic is downloaded off the internet).
*swoon*
So is there much of a demand for PhDs in arm wrestling? Since you work in finance, I guess not.
Damn, I was just thinking that I wish I had more hot chicks in my classes. It's pretty bad when you know the number of girls in your classes.
Sigs are for the weak.
... why the terminator was so pissed off with Sarah Connor. Not a 900 lb weakling anymore lady.
Bitter and proud of it.