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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."
When will someone take the sensors, gyros and other items used to make this work and upscale it so we can finally have Mech wars?
Why are most of the slashdot posts movie quotes, or references to movies?
These jokes don't translate well outside of the U.S.. Quite the opposite, it gives the impression Americans are typically imbecilic. 'Yuk it up.'
Nope. The American contingent is too busy propping up its low self-esteem with pallid jokes about the French. The irony is the jokes are based on France's refusal to acquiesce to American pressure, but that level of subtlety is well beyond the grasp of the majority of simians posting so far.
A good translation would be
Que je sois le premier a declarer:
J'accueil pour ma part a bras ouverts nos seigneurs et maitres robotiques.
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