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A Gallery of Unusual Chinese Robots

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the they'll-eat-your-medicine dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Chinese engineers have unveiled a series of robots lately — without releasing lots of technical details about them. In the past two months, I've gathered pictures of robots which can act as waiters in restaurants in Hong Kong or pull rickshaws near Beijing. I've also found a four-finger robotic hand able to play organ, a female robot greeting tourists visiting the Sichuan Science Museum with 'ni hao' ('How are you?' in Mandarin — if my sources are correct), and even a robotic chimpanzee."

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  1. Sources.... Wrong... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ni hao : Hello
    Ni hao ma : How are you

    Literal : You well
    ma == ?

  2. O.K. by Philip+K+Dickhead · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am now officially creeped-out.

    That was worse than looking at pictures of clowns.

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  3. But can they combine the... by dohzer · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...female robot and the robot that can "play an organ" into every man's dream?

  4. I for one... by Audent · · Score: 5, Funny

    welcome our robotic chimpanzee overlords....

    can they play chess?

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    1. Re:I for one... by ichigo+2.0 · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, but they can throw artifical feces and write works of Shakespeare if you give it a robotic typewriter.

  5. Robotic Chimpanzee? by Distinguished+Hero · · Score: 3, Funny
    even a robotic chimpanzee
    I do believe that the USA may have the prior art on that one. :)
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    1. Re:Robotic Chimpanzee? by LearnToSpell · · Score: 4, Funny

      No kidding. He was elected YEARS ago!

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  6. Re:Sources.... Wrong... by umofomia · · Score: 4, Informative
    ma is a question particle that transforms a statement into a yes-no question.

    Ni hao: You well -> Hello
    Ni hao ma: Are you well? -> How are you?

  7. Pointless by PavementPizza · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There are 1.3 billion Chinese; what do they need robots for? Just round up some dissidents.

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