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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.
I for one welcome our new barely walking, cigarette lighting, handwriting robotic overlords!
It is not immoral to create the human species - with or without ceremony, Samuel Clemens.
"Wu, who lives near Beijing, sees all the robots as his sons, "
and later on in the article
"Wu says he has to sell off some of his robot collection after plunging his family into debt "
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
In every other country he would have been arrested for obstructing traffic or scaring the shit out of the neighbor's kids. Only in China can one rise from a dishwasher to a robotic overlord ... oh wait. Something has changed here...
-Who is building the robots?
-Wu is.
-That's what I asked.
-Wu is building the robots.
-Yeah, who is building the robots?
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
.. he could start a hip-hop group could Wu Clang Clan.
.... oh, never mind. I'm groaning, too.
See, it's funny, because his robots go clang, and
'If Christ had tweeted the sermon on the mount, it might have lasted until nightfall.' - John Perry Barlow
As soon as someone new throws out their mechanical toothbrush.
Before you mod me funny, think, perhaps I was insightfully funny?
"If you give me "Ceremonial Burial" I can give you this "Walking automation" you need!"
If an American farmer made a robot slave dressed in clearly traditional Chinese farmer clothes to pull them on a rickshaw, they'd be denounced as a racist.
I therefore denounce this Chinese farmer as a racist for doing exactly that with a White American looking robot.
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make install -not war
Awesome. Someone named "Unity" is trying to kick someone else out.
IANAL, but his cigarette lighting robot appears to break the first rule of robotics.