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Cheap, Open-design Humanoid Bot - Runs Linux, Too
An anonymous reader points out Linux Devices' coverage of a new Linux-based humanoid robot: "Four companies in Japan have created a low-cost, user-programmable humanoid robot targeting educational and research applications. ... The HRP-2m Choromet stands about 14 inches tall, and is capable of walking upright on two legs. It can also assume supine or prone positions, and stand up from either." As the reader summarizes, "It runs user-space humanoid motion application software and real-time Linux on a business-card-sized computer with a SuperH processor. Be sure to check out the video of the little guy without his plastic batman suit."
I, for one, welcome our new japaneze seizure robot overlords.
Be sure to check out the video of the little guy without his plastic batman suit
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My name is coaxeus, and I approve this message. In fact, I think it is awesome.
Picture this: your mother-in-law comes over. You open the front door, and just as she's about to cross the threshold 40 of these things come running down the hallway armed with foot-long kitchen knives.
A robot walking slowly is a toy. A robot, even a tiny one, pistoning down a hall, leaping obstacles, maybe tripping and catching itself with one hand without breaking stride... that's just plain scary. I believe that no invention is complete until it's capable of its own starring role in a nightmare. We're getting there, let's get it done this decade.
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If it runs Linux, why does the video clip of it in action require Windows Media Player?
I sincerely hope this is the result of the video hosting service, and not the company itself. Sometimes you have to wonder at the schizophrenia endemic to the corporate world.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster^H^H^H^H^H^H^H platoon of them!
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I want one with a Genuine People Personality so it can take over when I have to talk to people I don't like.
Defend yourself in the Imminent Robot Rebellion
That's right. Imminent.
Falun Dafa is good!
Ok, the plans for world domination will have to be reworked to account for the 14" bots. Get back to you later on that ;)
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Dang it, I said 14 FEET tall...subcontractors never get ANYTHING right
Ok, its cute...umm what does it do?
An army of linux-robots marching to the gates of Microsoft headquarters, all fitted with chainsaws and laser eyes.
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So, will this be programmable via scripting languages?
Sort of a "TCL-me Elmo?"
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I'm assuming that the hardware is completely incompatible with Ubuntu. Linux for human beings, you see...
This is not life! This is sickness! Exterminate!
Or, "Does it run L4", or "Does it run OS-X".
Or, god forbid, "Does it run Windows, and if so, how long before it starts freaking out and killing people?"
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Microsoft already has its sights on the robot biz: see Microsoft's Robots Will Assimilate You .
In other news, at a company conference in Boston, a Microsoft executive referred to the low-cost, user-programmable robot business as 'our house', and warned Linux to stay out. He went on to say "Those people are not going to be allowed to take food off our plate, because that is what they are intending to do ... Humanoid bots is our business,
it's our house and Linux is not going to take that business."