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Robot Aims To Walk On Water

Posted by kdawson on from the run-actually dept.

qeorqe writes "CMU researchers are developing a robot that runs across water (PDF). It is modeled after the basilisk lizard, which has that rare ability. The researchers have done both computer simulations and experiments with test models."

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  1. I Bet It Sinks by UncleWilly · · Score: 5, Funny

    But if it doesn't, will other roots begin to worship it?

    1. Re:I Bet It Sinks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      But if it doesn't, will other roots begin to worship it? It will first have to convert DC into AC and perform a hard reboot.
    2. Re:I Bet It Sinks by KiloByte · · Score: 2, Funny

      God, root... What's the difference?

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    3. Re:I Bet It Sinks by vigmeister · · Score: 3, Funny

      God's password is his birthday - that's why he encrypted the origin of the Universe.

      Cheers!

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    4. Re:I Bet It Sinks by OhHellWithIt · · Score: 2, Funny

      Not until someone hangs it on a cross.

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    5. Re:I Bet It Sinks by Evilest+Doer · · Score: 2, Funny

      God, root... What's the difference?
      Ray, if somebody asks you if you're a Root, you say "Yes"!
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  2. Already done by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bah! Apple has already built a phone that can walk on water. This is just a phone with arms and legs.

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  3. Basilisk by Enderandrew · · Score: 2, Funny

    The robot also turns you to stone, but don't fear. Harry Potter will slay it with a sword.

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  4. Re:oooh by weicco · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought just the same. How is this even on Slashdot? This is obviously 2007 year old dupe! Hardly newsworthy...

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  5. holy robot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    BEDEVERE: What also floats in water?
    VILLAGER:Bread!
    VILLAGER:Apples!
    VILLAGER:Uh, very small rocks!
    VILLAGER:Mud!
    VILLAGER:Uh, churches! Churches!
    VILLAGER:Lead! Lead!
    ARTHUR:A duck!
    CROWD:Oooh.
    BEDEVERE:Exactly. So, logically... if this robot float on water, then it is made of wood

  6. I know why by tsa · · Score: 3, Funny

    At first I thought: 'Cool, but why would they want to do that?' Now it's clear to me: a robot that can carry a man over water in style is very useful when suddenly you are overcome by global warming. I live in the Netherlands, and I think I will need such a machine fairly soon.

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  7. Been done. by Kurayamino-X · · Score: 3, Funny

    Though, with wall-climbing buggies and a snowmobile, not a robot.
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=-QBiBcK96Bs

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  8. Pastafarianism by n3tcat · · Score: 1, Funny

    Could this be the arrival of the Son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster? It was intelligently designed, after all.

  9. Obligatory Futurama Quote by ari_j · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fry: (to a robot at a Bot Mitzvah) So, you don't believe in Robot Jesus?

    Jewish robot: We believe that he existed, and that he was a very well-built robot, but he was not our Messiah.

  10. Re:neat trick. by Random+Destruction · · Score: 3, Funny

    Military indeed. I can think of few things more frightening than a motion tracking quadrupedal robot running across a river at you, guns blazing.

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  11. Re:If you'd like to see it... by Tomun · · Score: 3, Funny

    Heres an even better video, driving on water:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD0hN-96ypE

  12. Re:An interesting question actually by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    This question becomes interesting when you point it back at the lizard. Why does it walk on water instead of just swimming?
    We can go further. Why does it go across water at all? Why not stay where it was born and raised, rather than pursue questionable gains across the pond? Scientists are so busy wondering whether they can get a robot to walk across water, that they forget to question whether the robot should.
  13. Yeah ... by krou · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... but can it turn it into wine?

    At least we'll be too drunk to care when they get self-replication. I, for one, *hic* ...

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  14. Re:oooh by streetphantom · · Score: 1, Funny

    I must be new here.

  15. Robot wars... by vigmeister · · Score: 3, Funny

    How about a robot that parts water? Then we can have "BattleBots: Judeo-Christian Wars".

    Cheers!

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  16. Re:oooh by rekked · · Score: 2, Funny

    Isn't the Galactic Pope a lizard itself?

  17. Re:An interesting question actually by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    To get rid of the taste of dogfood?

  18. More Importantly . . . by SpeedyGonz · · Score: 2, Funny

    . . . Will it blend?

  19. Re:An interesting question actually by ChrisMaple · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why does it go across water at all?
    To get to the other side.
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