I believe you missing the point of my post. I think you are lacking in appreciation for the fact that whether or not you like it, what we witnessed in the video IS the ancestor of a better product.There is nothing else to take its spot, our own ancestors certainly will not comment on your version of a better robot... So really, all we have is the little rollerskating dude. Your perfect scenario where the robot is flawlessly doing somersaults on the table is not happening just yet. It doesn't exist. The lumbering slow moving programmed movements that we see on the video does exist. Here is where your missing something fundemental..You seem to be the one with the idealized notion here..presuming that in your mind you can ignore the tangible and supplant it with what you "think" this robot should be able to accomplish, because obviously what it DOES accomplish falls well short of your version of where we should be in the field of robotics...again... You are missing the point. It is what it is. Hopefully you will look back someday and recognise...your last comment takes me back to high school english when I ignored all of the rules of grammar. Christ, my teacher hated me!
I'm not responding directly to anyone in particular, but to the whole coalition of/. folks running around this topic who imho have failed to recognise this moment for what it is..I really just couldn't read any further through the thread w/out responding... Just everyone slow down for a moment....We have a Robot...and it IS skating around on a table like a very agile small human might, and It doesn't take a extreme leap of vision to see what is up next...I don't know about the rest of you..but watching that video all I could think about is how smooth that little guy looked...perhaps some of us should consider watching it again (post-s/d effect)and notice there IS a marked step_slide movement going on..also check out the nice sway of the "hip" joint-whatever... Really people....this whole thread makes me wonder when did we become so unappreciative/spoiled that we are unable to enjoy this very cool moment without the high-faulting critical attitude..Look..I for one have no doubt in 15 years I will look at the bot who cleans my house,washes my clothes..etc..and recall fondly the first time that I saw ASIMOV WALK...then I will prob remember that darned rollerskating bot next.... and I will enjoy the satisfaction of knowing that I didn't blindly pass up either page in robotic-ancestery/history with nothing more than a sideways glance and a off-colored comment about how silly the whole thing was. Some seem to want to forget how truly extraordinary these times we live in are...
I have to stubbornly disagree-It's inevitable for the nanotech meme to propagate until it has infiltrated 100% of our society. The name has already been chosen, however overused it may be, it's really not about whether you like or dislike someones usage of a "label" for this concept. So my suggestion to all who think it has been recklessly misused is to let go of the cynicism that even you are now displaying towards the word "nanotechnology". It's obvious to me (and many others I'm sure) that we are nowhere near being comfortable with the IDEA, no matter how much we hate the "buzz"..
Gawd. Why not keep 3 guitars handy...individually tuned to open string C,F & G chords. That way if your really good at scrambling, you could fake your way through most of Bob Segar's setlist...
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I believe you missing the point of my post. I think you are lacking in appreciation for the fact that whether or not you like it, what we witnessed in the video IS the ancestor of a better product.There is nothing else to take its spot, our own ancestors certainly will not comment on your version of a better robot... So really, all we have is the little rollerskating dude. Your perfect scenario where the robot is flawlessly doing somersaults on the table is not happening just yet. It doesn't exist. The lumbering slow moving programmed movements that we see on the video does exist. Here is where your missing something fundemental..You seem to be the one with the idealized notion here..presuming that in your mind you can ignore the tangible and supplant it with what you "think" this robot should be able to accomplish, because obviously what it DOES accomplish falls well short of your version of where we should be in the field of robotics...again... You are missing the point. It is what it is. Hopefully you will look back someday and recognise...your last comment takes me back to high school english when I ignored all of the rules of grammar. Christ, my teacher hated me!
I'm not responding directly to anyone in particular, but to the whole coalition of /. folks running around this topic who imho have failed to recognise this moment for what it is..I really just couldn't read any further through the thread w/out responding... Just everyone slow down for a moment....We have a Robot...and it IS skating around on a table like a very agile small human might, and It doesn't take a extreme leap of vision to see what is up next...I don't know about the rest of you..but watching that video all I could think about is how smooth that little guy looked...perhaps some of us should consider watching it again (post-s/d effect)and notice there IS a marked step_slide movement going on..also check out the nice sway of the "hip" joint-whatever... Really people....this whole thread makes me wonder when did we become so unappreciative/spoiled that we are unable to enjoy this very cool moment without the high-faulting critical attitude..Look..I for one have no doubt in 15 years I will look at the bot who cleans my house,washes my clothes..etc..and recall fondly the first time that I saw ASIMOV WALK...then I will prob remember that darned rollerskating bot next.... and I will enjoy the satisfaction of knowing that I didn't blindly pass up either page in robotic-ancestery/history with nothing more than a sideways glance and a off-colored comment about how silly the whole thing was. Some seem to want to forget how truly extraordinary these times we live in are...
I have to stubbornly disagree-It's inevitable for the nanotech meme to propagate until it has infiltrated 100% of our society. The name has already been chosen, however overused it may be, it's really not about whether you like or dislike someones usage of a "label" for this concept. So my suggestion to all who think it has been recklessly misused is to let go of the cynicism that even you are now displaying towards the word "nanotechnology". It's obvious to me (and many others I'm sure) that we are nowhere near being comfortable with the IDEA, no matter how much we hate the "buzz"..
Gawd. Why not keep 3 guitars handy...individually tuned to open string C,F & G chords. That way if your really good at scrambling, you could fake your way through most of Bob Segar's setlist...