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Skiing Robot May Not Be Useful, But Fun To Watch

Posted by timothy on from the rescue-me-in-the-alps dept.

kkleiner writes "Bojan Nemec from the Jozef Stefan Institute in Slovenia recently presented his skiing robot at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). The robot won't be winning skiing records anytime soon and its usefulness as a ski instructor or in any other capacity seems quite a ways off. Nonetheless, the videos of this robot taking a ride down the ski slopes are well worth watching. In case you are wondering, this is a completely different robot than the one Slashdot covered earlier."

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  1. Wallace and Gromit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can it ski on cheese?

  2. Get Off My Mountain Lawn by dmomo · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is nothing new. I've strapped many an unsuspecting robot to a pair of skis and shoved it down a hill. They get down just fine without any of your fancy whirring gizmo's.

    Turns out it works for other things too. Campers, bears, trick-or-treaters and the Law.

  3. Original story at IEEE by zerosomething · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/robotics/robotics-software/automaton/skiing-robot-races-down-slope

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  4. Pull this guy's funding! by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

    This sort of nonsense is taking time and effort away from truly valuable sexbot research. This is a totally irresponsible use of scarce money and talent.