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Flower Robots For Your Home
Roland Piquepaille writes "Flower robots are not new, and some have already been developed in the US. Now, South Korean researchers have created a robotic plant which acts like real ones. This robot has humidifying, oxygen-producing, aroma-emitting, and kinetic functions. It is about 1.30 meters tall and 40 centimeters in diameter. The robotic plant can interact with people when they approach, and it can 'dance' when music is played. The researchers don't say when a commercial version of their flowers will come to the market. They also don't mention a retail price."
I suspect that it's a new way to sell us the kind of humidifier/sensitizers that you just plug.
On another hand that robotic flower who interacts and dance with people would just fit perfectly fine with my cluster of singing basses who are pinned on the wall "taake me to the river"...
" The robotic plant can interact with people when they approach, and it can 'dance' when music is played. "
Little shop of Horrors
>and it can 'dance' when music is played
And it further looks like the First Law of Robotics don't apply here!
Always proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
But they forget to mention that they can walk by themselves and can spit poison that can blind a person.
Task Mangler
Seriously, is there anything they don't want to turn into a robot?
Reminds me of the new Philips Ligt Blossom flower (pictures) running on sun- and windenergy. What is it that happy flowers - or actually, nature - are inspiring those designers? I think the future might be the a mixture of technology and natural looking devices.
To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it , requires brains.
Great, so now instead of planting flowers and trees that will form Glucose, give us Oxygen, supply all higher lifeforms and save the world every household will have a mechanical machine that will use up precious energy and resources. Sign me up!
Why have a living, breathing flower in a pot when you can have a pretend one that wastes so much more energy? Who wouldn't want that?
With such thick stems it looks like robot is more inspired by anime tentacle rape than actual organic flowers!
Lies! You can KEEP them.
Sincerely,
The '80s
Looks like a solution in need of a problem to me. Real plants fulfil their functions just fine. And they look better.
...can't resist... must obey... help!
please *sweat...
...must do it..
i, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords
ah, that was tough...
Do they also run on water and carbon dioxide?
c++;
Pet robot rock! It can... uh...
The researchers don't say when a commercial version of their flowers will come to the market. They also don't mention a retail price.
They're available now, from £11.99 upwards.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=dancing+flower&tag=googhydr-21&index=aps&hvadid=689581509&ref=pd_sl_2h5hlp7cun_b
Squirrel!
What, you mean it turns brown and all the leaves fall off if you don't water it right?
Smivs on the intertubes!
Morticia Adams had something similar. Occasionally, it would eat guests. It wasn't quite robotic, however.
It behaves just like a real rock. It's really low on maintenance, is has solar cells to recharge itself, but it can last for months on a single charge. It is perfect for a hi-tech Japanese rock garden.
ps, I already filed the patent.
You know what I hate? Those santa figures that start going "hohoho" if you go within about 30 feet of them. You know, it's a lucky thing halloween is when it is, or they'd have all the xmas tat in the stores already.
Feel free to mod me -1 bah humbug.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Seriously, someone has actually created a game of catch on the Wii.
He said it was because...
Simulated catch, robot dogs, and now robot plants.
At the risk of sounding all "get of my lawn", this kind of thing is pretty depressing.
Paul Leader
Oh, come on! You're not even trying!
How about:
Why don't people take time to smell their new robotic overlords?
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Don't you get it yet? The shopping season is all about taxes. You file your income taxes by april so the govt can count/collect it all by summer, then in winter they make up a holiday that convinces everyone to spend spend spend so they can collect tax revenues. It might be reversed for you Aussies, when do you pay taxes?
And did you notice that every store has a frickin holiday section now, it just goes xmas to valentines to easter to mothers day to dads and grads to cheap chinese summer toys to Halloween to thanksgiving and repeat.
And your last comment is the icing on the cake, the star on the xmas tree, the big box under the tree. You are actually feeling guilty for talking that way! You assume that everyone will negatively paint you a "Scrooge" if you don't participate in the scam. That's why it's such a great scam. And that is why even though people can't afford it and they really don't need it, they BUY it anyways, and the cycle continues.
I hate it, but I appreciate it for its elegance.
It has humidifying, oxygen-producing, aroma-emitting, and kinetic functions.
But can it feel love and love you in return?
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Yeah, we have 2. 'Xmas in July' which is totally reserved for yuppies which you can catch in the wild in trendy places and then we have the one on the 25th of December when it's sweltering hot and most eat salads and prawns (erm shrimps - no one eats turkey by the way), while we watch the bushfires tearing through the countryside.
Take your pick. And we do our taxes in July and get refunds about 2 weeks later.
Don't be apathetic. Procrastinate!
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I don't know about where you live, but in my area, the xmas crap is alongside the halloween crap.
Seriously, in the first week of October I was seeing retailers with both stuff on display. I remember when the Christmas stuff dutifully waited until after halloween -- I don't think that's the case any more.
Cheers/Humbug
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Do the robotic flowers absorb more CO2 and emit more oxygen than what is required to produce, power, and when they break down, recycle them ?
Didn't think so. I'll take real flowers, kthxbye.
What a depressingly stupid machine.
From the article:
When a person comes within a 40 cm radius of the flower, its supersonic sensor perceives the approach, the stem bends towards the person, and the buds come into full bloom.
It can go supersonic within 40 cm? How about the buds come into full bloom and impale themselves in the approaching person?
What?