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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."
Yeah know, this French "rifle dropping" stuff just isn't right. Now if you want to see first class rifle dropping read about the Anschluss Österreichs. It was bad engineering (frontline guns couldn't rotate enough) that allowed the Nazis to get into France, not the lack of courage. The French Resistance had serious testicle fortitude, the Austrians just rolled over and "thank you sir, may I have another".
Daft Punk fans have known this since the 90s. Witness their latest non-musical project Electroma. It's a beautiful movie that follows two brave robots who want to find out what it means to be human.
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
I as one am, want merry welcome our overlorded linuxed French robot.
:-)
That should hurt your brain like it did mine
Je suis fier d'être le premier à déclarer (correctement):
Bienvenue à nos nouveaux suzerains robotiques tournant sous linux !
The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
Please link to the actual site, not the blog. We don't need to read all the blogodreck and ads.
Simply head-butt is enough: http://images.google.com/images?q=head-butt
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/13/zidane_hea dbutt_outrage/
factor 966971: 966971