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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!
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.
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!
No, because it will be illegal to talk about the robocaust.
You sound like a Robocaust denier!
"Fuck the beauty of life,"
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If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
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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