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NAO Humanoid Robot Set To Hit the Market
KentuckyFC writes "Earlier this year, Paris-based Aldebaran-Robotics picked up $8 million in venture capital funding to help commercialize its NAO humanoid robot. The target market for this device is research labs working on the next generation of robotic hardware and software. Today, the company has posted a detailed spec of NAO on the arXiv saying that it expects the robot to cost about $15,000 each. That's cheap compared to other humanoids. Fuitsu's HOAP humanoids cost $50,000 each and various estimates price Honda's Asimo at $1 million per bot, although they are not for sale. Aldebaran-Robotics says that NAO's cost should come down to about $6,000 as production ramps up."
I want my robot NAO!
The picture states that the robot has "23 inches" and points to a questionable area...
A hundred years from now, whether the readers are C or Fe, they will get a feeling of nausea reading about the 'retail prices' of 'humanoids.'
No, because it will be illegal to talk about the robocaust.
Why do you need a humanoid robot to play Nethack?
Ok, this is quite unlike me but I clicked the link and... Terminator 0.0.1 (alpha) looks like a robotic clown. She has no breasts, looks like sh'e made of HARD plastic, and doubtless has no vagina.
I'm going to pay $15,000 for that? Come on, dude, I want one like Data's daughter! What are you guys smoking? Speaking of smoking, I can get a real twenty five year old human crack whore for twenty bucks.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
To be fair, even natural-born humans have a price, 5.1 million dollars if I remember right, according to the US government.
The subtlety being in the word 'retail'. The US government doesn't sell people in "people stores".
Or does it?
You just got troll'd!
FTA: "Initially, delivered with basic behaviors, the robot will be, at its market introduction, the ideal introduction to robots. Eventually, with many improved behaviors, it will become an autonomous family companion. Finally, with more sophisticated functions, it will adopt a new role, assisting with daily tasks (monitoring, etc.)"
Will, it, have, full, comma, functionality?
Anthropomorphizing robots, cute as they are in Wall*e, is insulting to the beauty of that which is life.
That's only when the robots look like robots. When the robots look like hot chicks that are anatomically correct (if well-endowed), then it's a complement to the beauty that is life.
And by a complement, I mean that I want two of them. One to complement each arm.
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
A humanoid robot that looked like me would be great, not just 'cos it looks like me (poor thing!), but I could send it to work and stay at home all day reading /.
Oh, hang on, I do that anyway. Oh well!
Smivs on the intertubes!
No, because it will be illegal to talk about the robocaust.
You sound like a Robocaust denier!
I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed...
No, but they are programmed to surrender.
I don't see the appeal to having a humanoid robot.
Sex.
Anthropomorphizing robots, cute as they are in Wall*e, is insulting to the beauty of that which is life.
Anthropomorphizing robots is all about what my previous statement was about. Fuck the beauty of life, we're talking utilization here.
Look where all this talking got us, baby.
"Fuck the beauty of life,"
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If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
Indeed it does not. One can only get a person through the OEM channels.
Although big dog is great (and I was amazed at its abilities), I pissed myself laughing at this one instead: Another big dog robot
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"it expects the robot to cost about $15,000 each. That's cheap compared to other humanoids."
Gosh, yes. Have you seen the costs of raising kids?
Boy I can't wait until i can get my own Marilyn Monroebot!
....can't......lolcats....too....strong....
I can has robot NAO?! ^.^
*gigglefits*
Perhaps you should try the real thing first before you start coming up with improvements?
Don't Date Robots!
I think we are more likely to be governed by these Three Laws:
1. A citizen may not criicize the government or, through inaction, allow the government to be criticized.
2. A citizen must obey orders given to it by the government, except where such orders would conflict with corporate profits.
3. A citizen must protect itself from unregulated media as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
You can't talk about Wikipedia's flaws on Wikipedia
I clicked the link only because I mistaken Paris as Pris, the entrainment model...
And you won't be politically correct to say the "R" word... but it's OK for Robots to say it.
Robocaust? What robocaust? I've never heard of a robocaust before. It sounds like something made up by a /.er.
Yeah, everyone knows the correct term is Robocalypse.
I'm so excited I just made water in my pantaloons!
...with its Lithium-ion-battery-based Humanoid Suicide Bomber-bot.
If you quote this signature there'll be 72 copies of Windows ME waiting for you in Heaven.
I read almost all the comments thus far and not a single overlord joke! I, for one, welcome new robot overlord jokes!
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.