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Linux-powered Robots From France? Oui!
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."
I for one welcome our new blah blah blah overlords. Please, let your first act be banning this joke.
This robot runs on free beer.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
My 4 year old son is obsessed with making his own "Mario angel" (aka - from "Angelic Layer"), and I've started looking for small, programmable robots he can putter with - anything bigger, and I fear for the safety of my household when he tries to program it with a Butt Stomp or some such.
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So many jokes, so little time...
...our new rude smelly overlords...
...robot army surrenders...
...collabrative software...
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Aldebaran Robotics was founded in early 2005 by Bruno Maisonnier. The company employs about a dozen, is 5 percent employee-owned, and has 17 investors, led by Maisonnier, who holds a 58 percent stake.
Wait a minute, wasn't Alderaan Robotics completely destroyed by Grand Moff Tarkin a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away?
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
Will they head-butt their opponents?
I see it coming already: "I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."
Reaches for remote...
"Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time."
I'm not so sure this is a good idea.
Never shake hands with a man you meet in a fertility clinic.
Let's see if the open source philosophy works with hardware too. For instance, Italian hackers could teach this robot to play soccer, French hackers to do proper headbutts, German ones to make unfunny jokes about other nations, and so on.
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Laissé soyez soit le premier à dire...
I pour un, font bon accueil à nos nouveaux suzerains Linux-actionnés de robot de France !
I, for one, look forward to our new French robotic overlords' surrender.
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Worse yet, will you be able to fire them when they become lazy and incompetent?
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ah, nevermind. The horse is putrescent. Is there a hose nearby? I need to wash off my boots.
sudo eat my shorts
A surly, chain-smoking robot, to not do the work you need to get done around the home, which you cannot fire. Sign me up!
Disclaimer: Been to France a couple of times and actually the above would more properly be typical of Parisian behavior; the French people outside Paris have always been quite nice.
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since it runs Linux, it can do no harm.
That's because the user will be spending 99% of their time updating to the latest versions of the software packages and being told to RTFM by tech support when it won't turn on.
But at least it isn't running windows, that would scare me.
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Atleast we know Isaac Asimov's Laws of not harming anyone will be followed.
...doesnt sound quite the same
mordre mon âne brillant en métal.
mordre:bite
mon:my
brilliant:shiny
(you get the picture)
As an italian, I am offended that you'd say french people smell of garlic. That's strictly our domain. And olive oil.
The french smell more of BO.
And Paris (literally) smells of dog poo in the summer.
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On one hand, I would love a robot. On the other hand, I'll bet they are expensive. On the gripping hand, Moties aren't available for purchase.