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ASIMO and Research Celebrated in Brussels
robotsrule writes "The European Comission (Europa) is holding a public event to bring the public, especially young people, closer to the museums, laboratories and academic institutions that are doing high level research in Europe. 'European Researchers' Night' will offer several fun events such as science cafes, behind-the-scenes open house evenings at several research facilities, an X-ray laser demonstration, films, dinners, and more. The star guest of the evening is Honda's ASIMO humanoid robot. The event is scheduled for September 23, 2005 and will be held in Brussels, Belgium."
AWESOM-O must dispense oil waste. Where is the nearest toilet please?
I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlord.
Röntgen laser? WTF?
I know people here are good at seeing the EU as something evil, but not THAT kind of evil. EU is the suits-and-lawyers-and-politicians kind of evil, NOT x-ray-lasers-and-sharks evil.
Bad correlation with stereotype. They should be ashamed of themselves. ; )
Thanks for the educational but oh-so-comedy killing reply.
"Ok, ready?"
(click)
"There it was, what did you think? What? Nothing?"
"Ok, one more time, but PAY ATTENTION. This is expensive."
(click)
"Ok, NOW what did you think?"
"What do you mean, 'nothing'?"
Ignorance is the root of all evil.
I mean, all of us know about the city's history, right? We know about Brussels sprouts and...uh...umm...(clicks link)
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
The ASIMO site appears to be getting slashdotted and I can't find any pricing there, there are only plushies, scale models, and toys on eBay, so can you really buy one of these and for how much?
...if I made something as capable as that, I'd too make it lease-only, to respected customers.
I mean, I'd be quite mad if my desktop was suddenly wrecked, accidentally or otherwise. Something like this is probably far more <smeagol>presssiousss<smeagol> than a thousand-dollar PC in their opinion. It sure is IMO.
I guess there will be some luxury reseller out there soon, but I haven't heard of one yet.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
Does anyone know how much ASIMO is estimated to have cost Honda? I know there have been several revisions and whatnot, so "just for the current one" is fair in my book.
I have a feeling it probably pales in comparison to the billion or so spent on their F1 racing efforts (yeah, billion with a b; F1 is insane these days).
Please help metamoderate.
If anyone has solid information on this, I'd be interested in obtaining it. Thanks.
"a public event to bring the public"? Well I would expect that would be the purpose of a public event.
that's . Now there's one more to close, so...
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
I saw the Asimo Robot on display at the San Diego Aerospace Museum when my daughter competed in the US Nationals for the Sally Ride Science Foundation "Toy Challenge" recently. It was presented by an attractive, young woman.
There was a pause in her conversation when she asked the audience for a particular dance for Asimo, and I responded with the first one that came to mind... the robot!
Apparently, it does the cha-cha, the salsa, and a number of others, but it doesn't do the robot...
Whodda thought?
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
As we all know, X-rays go through our bodies. So, a robot with an X-ray laser can fire at me as much as he wants, he will just fry any metal that's behind me.
shouldn't that just be 'xaser'? or is it some kind of laser powered by x-rays?
if i'm not immortal, what's the point of living?
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In Tokyo. I was visiting Japan, and happened to walk into the National Emerging Science and Technology museum. They had a little show where he would walk around and play rock paper scissors, and navigate two steps, up a platform on a box. It was pretty cool. It was definitely aimed at youngsters though, they had a show every 1/2 hour, and from the nonexistant Japanese I speak, the 'host' was trying to get the crowd geared up. Several small children chanted 'ASIMO', at some question (maybe 'Who do you want to see?') by the host. When it was done, it would walk backwards too. Pretty cool, overall.
Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds.There upon the rainbow is the answer to a neverending story
These researchers really know how to par-tay! Count me in!
The ASIMO suit for the midget doesn't really cost all that much.
Yeah? Well I think you're overrated too.
You should have actually read about what you have posted. The "European Researchers' Night" isn't only in Brussels, it's an event in whole Europe. ASIMO is only in Brussels.
If you check out the calendar of the Researchers in Europe 2005 initiative, you'll see that there is a lot more happening than just the "European Researchers' Night" on September 23rd. In fact, from June through November, there are research- and science-related events all over Europe.
Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja!... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
Lend me an ASIMO so I can stuff it with Mindpixels.
ASIMO is old news. We need a newer better robot. And this time, don't make it look so gay.
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
The last X-ray laser I heard about was this one:
.. user friendly .. design to demo.
Another idea to come from the SDI project was the nuclear-pumped X-ray laser. This was essentially an orbiting atomic bomb, surrounded by laser media in the form of glass rods; when the bomb exploded, the rods would be bombarded with highly-energetic gamma-ray photons, causing spontaneous and stimulated emission of X-ray photons in the atoms making up the rods. This would lead to optical amplification of the X-ray photons, producing an X-ray laser beam which would be minimally affected by atmospheric distortion and capable of destroying ICBMs in flight. The X-ray laser would be a strictly one-shot device, destroying itself on activation.
I hope they've managed a more