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Personal Robots From Valley Startup

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'll-believe-it-when-it's-cooking-me-dinner dept.

Tjeerd writes ""A Silicon Valley start-up is developing a hardware and software development platform for personal-assistant robots, autonomous boats and unmanned cars. The privately funded company, quietly started almost a year ago by eGroups founder and veteran Google architect Scott Hassan, plans to make its robotics software open source. That way, it hopes to draw a community of developers to build applications in these respective fields.""

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  1. Hey Baby... by jimboindeutchland · · Score: 3, Funny

    wanna kill all humans?
    -Bender

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  2. Re:Great start by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 4, Funny

    * Load the dishwasher -> Wife
            * Empty the cat litter -> Wife
            * Feed the cats -> Wife
            * Let the dogs in/out -> Wife
            * Feed the dogs -> Wife
            * Do laundry -> Wife
            * Clean gutters -> Wife
            * etc

    The Wife unit also does the hoovering.

    *Incidentally darling if you are reading this I don't mean it and I will assume the party escort submission position.

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  3. Re:A friendly reminder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    They have a variety of punishments for crime, most of which rhyme.

  4. Re:Great start by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Funny

    * Clean gutters -> Wife Hmmm...my Wife unit doesn't clean gutters. Mine must be broken. /me grins, ducks, and starts running like hell...

    Sorry, honey. :)
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  5. A lot less interesting without dyslexia. by DdJ · · Score: 4, Funny

    At first, I thought the title was "Personal Robots Form Valley Startup".

    Now that would have been an interesting story...

  6. Re:Great start by dcsmith · · Score: 3, Funny
    COST?

    Its more an issue of how LONG you'll be paying than how much.
    And the payment plan is, well, forever...

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  7. Re:Great start by nozzo · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah that'll be in version 1.1 - the unfortunate bug in .9 meant that the cats were fed to the dogs, the gutters were cleaned with the laundry, and the cat litter was emptied into the dishwasher.

    I for one... no don't go there.

  8. Re:A friendly reminder by Your+Pal+Dave · · Score: 2, Funny

    They'll torment you with uptempo singing and dancing!