Mark Tilden, Robosapiens Inventor Interviewed

An anonymous reader writes "You-Review.Net has an interview with Mark Tilden, the inventor of the Robosapiens line of products. In this interview, Mr Tilden reveals more information about the RSMedia bot, which will be the world's first walking, talking, MP3 playing, ARM9 powered programmable Linux computer (with a Subwoofer, just incase). No news yet on the GPL status of this beast."

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Re:Note:

[Kaptain_Korolev]

Mark TIlden isn't the Roboticist he believes himself to be. His work on BEAM robotics was very very over hyped by himself. The same can be said for Robosapien (sic) which is a superb toy but not a useful robotics platform. Tilden is a superb maker of toys and cramming lots of functionality into a low price point but in terms of producing revolutionary robotics he is not up there with the likes of Rodney Brooks.

Re:Interesting Future

[c]

Currently the cost of most of the more interesting robot systems are rather prohibitive to the poor geek tinkerer, but I expect that will change in the next few years.

Fifteen years ago, Mark Tilden was building interesting robots using components from dead tape players and dollar store solar calculators.

Somehow, he managed to parlay this stuff into a job with NASA...

If you think you need to spend a large chunk of change to do neat stuff with robots, you definitely need to do more research...

c.

Rubbed me the wrong way

[autophile]

Maybe the guy is a supergenius and is allowed to answer like that, but his answers just rubbed me the wrong way. The interview seemed to be of the form:

Q: Serious question?

A: That depends on what the meaning of the word "question" is. That's the question, whether 'tis nobler... And speaking of "depends", did you know that 3% of old people in Korea wear Depends? Short, informationless answer. :(

I was hoping for something more thoughtful and substantial rather than flippant stream-of-consciousness.

But that's just one guy's opinion.

--Rob