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Linux-powered Robots From France? Oui!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hobart-college-dept-of-egnineering dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A French start-up created to build autonomous, easily programmable, affordable humanoid robots expects to ship its first product — a humanoid household service robot running Linux — in early 2007. The walking, talking, WiFi-enabled Nao household robot will stand 21.6 inches tall, and will feature 23 "degrees of freedom" of motion — three more than the 14-inch tall Choromet android announced earlier this week by four Japanese companies. Nao's extra degrees of freedom appear to come in the form of gripping hands."

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  1. French Joke here..(maybe, no, so?) by DarkDragonVKQ · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I now know why the French surrendered so much. They were building robots to take over the world. >.>

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  2. just what we need... by sparr0w · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...an entire ROBOTIC ARMY of cheeze-eatin' surrender monkeys!

  3. Linux powered robots from France by rinkjustice · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    As long as the French don't build them like their prizefighters ;)

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  4. I'm confused by wowbagger · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So, we are going to get a bunch of surly, lazy, obnoxious robots from France.

    But I thought Bender was Mexican?

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