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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.
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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."
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what next?? Robots vs Humans WWF?
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I, for one, welcome our 17 year old female overlords.
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the technology or her peers?
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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!
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This is exactly the kind of thing that leads to the motivation for robots to build hoards of rampaging kill-bots.
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Did she look something like this?
A religious war is an adult version of a fight over who has the best imaginary friend
Panna Felson
Click here. She's not bad looking. ;)
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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
Since the jokes are going to be flying fast and furious over this, I thought I'd ask if anyone has links to other information about this cool research. Googling on polymer muscles brought up this page, but I didn't see anything about their ability to carry semi-fluid weight loads like groceries, tools, etc.
One nice side note (hopefully) - since it's government funded through NASA, does this mean this work won't be patented and re-sold in the market for an even higher price than it will already cost?
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."
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"Nah."
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The robot let the girl win to prevent itself being mentally abused and blackmailed.
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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.
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... in a contest attempted to encourage the development of polymer-based artificial muscles
A depressingly similar situation in Junior High is what encouraged my development of my then-gummy-based muscles!
I just pooped your party.
"Panna, a self-confessed wimp, was chosen to represent humanity."
Wonderful. It doesn't sound like they expected it to be much of a contest. They should make the robot arms fight each other first until they get good enough to beat a self-confessed wimp. Then, maybe they won't be wasting everyone's time.
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."
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who am I kidding... they still do
And you keep going back for more?
Humanity is 'saved', unless she is Number 6, the next generation Cylon...
Wow, it's a good thing they didn't get Stallone to arm rassle thos robots, then they really would have been humliated!
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To really draw interest, they should organize matches between women and other types of polymer-based artificial extremities commonly available in shady stores emblazened with neon lights...
for a girl.
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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
a 17-year-old girl called Panna Felsen
called? is the girl a robot as well?
whatever happened to named?
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!
...putting the only well developed muscle to a good use.
The contest was set up by Yoseph Bar-Cohen
Yoseph Bar-Cohen, as if that's his real name!! He's really Cohen the Barbarian, and maybe he'll have to defend himself next time, rather than sick his robots on her!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Holy Gods! She's gorgeous, bright, and can protect me from killer robots!
I would think that the people designing the bots would test them first. Or did the bots beat all of the designers in arm wrestling? If they did, I wouldn't be too suprised.
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I for one, welcome our new 17 year old arm-wrestling robot dominating almost-legal female overlords!
Welcome our wimpy, weak Robot Overlords.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
The artificial muscles will, likely, become 10 or 100 times stronger 5-10 years from now.
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muscles changing shape .... hmmmmmmm me thinks something else is a foot
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A hot geek helping a bunch of geeks getting a KISS, with her robotics knowledge? My brain is hurting already...
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Damn, did that article really have to be posted by him?
:)
Just when I was looking for his nickname in this page, I found it on the main post... Slashot's a small place after all
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Yoshimi couldn't let those robots eat me. It'd be tragic if those evil robots win.
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What the hell are you talking about. Most of the posters on slashdot can't grow facial hair.
I was studying towards my doctorate in this specific field for two years. This particular challenge was touted for a long time and was supposed to be the holy grail that would establish for ever the authenticity of conductive polymers and this field. Too bad it hasn't turned out this way.
There was never enough "science" in this field. Too much sci-fi and reliance on empirical data rather than precise modeling and ability to predict force! Why, even a basic equation like F=Ma needed to be applied in twisted and convoluted way for such materials.
As a mechanical engineer, I never thought this was going anywhere. After working on this field for two years, I finally left school and got a MS as a consolation. Now I work in the finance industry.
But the girl was totally worth it. ^___________^
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.
The robots then retaliated by electrocuting her and hurling battery acid at her.
Disclaimer: I have not RTFA so I don't know who is actually funding this. That said...
The GP poster claimed that this was GOVERNMENT FUNDED research, done through NASA. While it may have been conducted by a private organization, if the funding money came from the government, that means that it came from "We, the people". Therefore, giving ownership of the resultant "intellectual property" (debates on the legitimacy thereof aside) to a particular corporation or individual is robbing "We, the people" from the due returns on our investment, and furthermore, allowing us to be charged twice for it!
We already paid for the R&D, through our tax dollars. The only thing we should have to pay for any application of that R&D are the costs to actually apply it - the production costs. Non-public-domain IP rights for IP which was already funded by the public is a nonsense idea. We already bought it. It belongs to us, collectively. To assign it otherwise is no less than theft (by the RIAA/MPAA definition of the word).
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Wouldn't you?
I'd last 20 seconds longer than the last time I arm-wrestled a girl...
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Any engineer worth there salt could make you a machine that would be able to tear off a human arm within a split second of the match starting. That isn't the point here, I'm saying that the title refers to strength and if you want that from a machine, you got it. Just don't expect intelligence.
oooh... and he gets a -1 Troll from the German Judge!
Linkie.
What's a girl?
Your head a splode
So, in the spirit of female liberation everywhere, let me be the first to say - that little girl is seriously hot. Yowza.
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
Her name is Yoshimi
she's a black belt in karate
working for the city
she has to discipline her body
'Cause she knows that
it's demanding
to defeat those evil machines
I know she can beat them
Oh Yoshimi, they don't believe me
but you won't let those robots eat me
Yoshimi, they don't believe me
but you won't let those robots defeat me
Those evil-natured robots
Cheers,they're programmed to destroy us
she's gotta be strong to fight them
so she's taking lots of vitamins
Adolfo
The robots let her win.
This is pretty interesting. A good opportunity to input the goal, vector and some parameters and see what a neural net would try to do with imitation human musculature?
*swoon*
I'm noticing a scary trend in Slashdot (or maybe in humanity in general). Put the word "breast" in an uninteresting poll, and it wins overwhelmingly. Put the words "teenage girl" in an uninteresting story, and it gets over two comments per minute. Imagine how well a product would sell if it used teenage girls and breasts in it's advertisements.
I've noticed that when people arm wrestle, there are a lot of vibrations as peoples' arms shake and strain against the other person pushing them. Micro fluctutations in increases and decreases in power.
Maybe something about her exact rate of acceleration and muscle shaking created some kind of harmonic flutter that the robotic muscles weren't preapred to deal with. Just a hypothesis about why she might have won when presumably other didn't.
It looks like the arm wrestling machine was powered by three penis pumps.
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." - Denis Diderot
Not sure about the lack of strength part, but that heroine expects results. Good luck buying the gas for her 5000000 SUV's. Too bad there are no images of the actual arm wrestling competition.
Your idealism has nothing to do with reality. The government just funds things that it thinks are important to the nation to be developed. Companies that do the work get to patent any developed technologies. The rules for military technologies are probably different, however.
My other first post is car post.
If 17 yr old girls can beat up our robots, what hope do they have in military applications?
There's loads of pictures of girls taking on several mechanical devices at once! What? ...
but will she fare as well against the robotic tentacles?
Should have been posted on international women's day! hahaha.
So - QotD - do geeks like girls better or linux?
Windows - high maintanence
OS X - sexy and suave...
Linux - its really sweet of you to help it out...
Unix - hardcore BDSM fanatic
Oh damn, this is slashdot. Sorry - search wikipedia for "GIRL" and then "FRIEND"...
I see. You were saying that it belongs to the people because it was paid for by the government. Well, the government steals from Peter to give to Paul all the time. Get used to it. Welfare, farm subsidies, Social Security, military servitude, et cetera. Just consider it welfare for research workers.
My other first post is car post.
So, a girl from California beats a robot. How is this news?
The Robot arms were from a little known company from los angeles called "Cyberdyne", which sounds familiar to some movie about robots from the future starting a war to humans.... TERMINATOR 2!!!! They are already testing us. thank god they got one of those Amazon women of Hollywood!!!
... why the terminator was so pissed off with Sarah Connor. Not a 900 lb weakling anymore lady.
Bitter and proud of it.
What colour was her hardsuit?
You must think in Russian.
This is actually good news. Now, when someone tells you "you hit like a girl !", you can retort with, "oh yeah ? well you hit like a ROBOT !"
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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 :-) )
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I thought the robot had 3 arms... If that was the case I was going to say "..wait a minute; that's not a 3rd arm!!!!" ;-)
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