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Farmer Builds Robot Army
46-year-old Wu Yulu has only a basic school education but has managed to build himself 26 robots from scrap materials over the past 30 years. At first his creations were simple and could barely shuffle along by themselves. The robots got more complex as time passed, and eventually he built ones capable of climbing walls, serving water, lighting cigarettes, playing musical instruments and writing calligraphy. "When I was 11, one day I was sitting on the doorstep, and while watching villagers passing by I suddenly came up with the idea of building a machine that walks like a man," he told the Beijing Times.
In every other country he would have been arrested for obstructing traffic or scaring the shit out of the neighbor's kids.
The police is too busy arresting dissidents and Falun Gong followers.
LUKE: Uncle Owen...
OWEN: Yeah?
LUKE: This R-Wu unit has a bad motivator. Look!
OWEN: Hey, what're you trying to push on us?
"if you had ANY knowledge of history of science, you would have known that with a few exceptions, ALL of the biggest scientists and inventors of the past are the sort of person THAT guy is."
BULLSHIT.
"you just called a lot of people ranging from faraday to tesla crackpots."
No, they didn't build electric automata out of scrap on a farm, they dabbled in mathematical and theoretical understanding of physical phenomena and made practical use of it. Whole different kettle of fish.
I could make his automata, I don't have the inclination (which is what makes him special), but he did nothing like the original post said - make advances in robotics based on feedback controllers, balance, cybernetics etc.
He built walking machines, which people have been doing since victorian times.
You are the moron, not only for having no ability to read what I've said in previous posts, but also for thinking that everyone that can weld two things together in a shed is the next tesla.