We have buit our entire environment for bipedal movement. Just ask anybody with a walker or wheelchair just how inconvenient (and, without help, occasionally impossible) it is to get around when you're no longer bipedal.
What you mean to say is that we build everything so that people who can walk can just reach across without bending down. Without that little tibit, there would be one or two problems with people in wheelchairs. Those would be getting in and out of cars, curbs, and stairs in buildings that don't have elevators. In fact those are the only problems my grandpa has and he uses a walker. There really is nowhere on his farm he can't go without his ride on lawnmower. I can't even think of anywhere a person could be that he can't go using a wheelchair. (including stairs but you would need Dean Kamens wheelchair) Robots can get by perfectly with wheels. Joseph Engelberger said,"Wheeled robots can do the same job as walking robots. If they need to upstairs all they need to do is use the elevator."
Have you visited a store lately or are you lazy
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The classic series is now super cheap. You can find those games for 14.99 and I believe 9.99 depending on the title.
This article reminds me of two solar cells concepts that are being created. The first one that I remember is one that is using the proteins from spinach to actually create power. Here is a link.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040605/fob2. asp
Also, I actually created a crude solar cell from either rasberries or blackberries at a science musuem. It actually worked. Now all that needs to be done is to stop the cells from breaking down.
I noticed that this is the second video game that has been retrofitted for outdoors. Pac man was the first one that I know of. I wonder how many of these games can actually be made for the outdoors.http://www.pacmanhattan.com/about.php
If you docked one with the ISS, I'd expect it to very quickly die --- and once dead, I doubt very much whether doing an in-orbit renovation to get it into a sufficient state even to land it on autopilot would be feasible. (If there is and autopilot.)
Im assuming you meant if there is an autopilot. Anyway there is some degree of autopilot on the shuttle. I remember from the accident reports of the Columbia disaster about how austronauts noticed the problems with the shuttle when it was making huge corrections that were not normal.
What are they gonna' do? Abort after it's 100' off the pad?
There was an Apollo mission where they almost did scrap the mission after takeoff. Lighting struck the spaceship and chaos ensued. They had no idea why the electronics were displaying such weird error messages. Fortunately, some pathetic person memorized the rare error message and knew how to fix the device. This has to be the closest NASA has ever gotten to aborting after a launch.
If the environment was that prone to fires then how do the scientists know the fires were not caused by lighting? It's one thing to blame humans but it's another thing to completely ignore one of the main causes of fires.
I agree with what you are saying but there is a particular area of robotics that this can fit under. The term is called telerobotics. It's basically the use of robotics to create give the person a feeling of being in another place. This allows them to control whatever the want to. This is the best information that I could find unfortunately. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepresence
Hehehe... My mom told me the other day my great grandpa used to bundle up a bunch of trash and ride the New York subway knowing it would be stolen. He would laugh at the gu opening up the package as he got off the train.
This whole entire story reminds me of a discussion that I overheard in Boston while waiting to get on a train.
Man:I want to get on the train now.
Conductor:Im sorry I can't let you get on the train.
Man:Why can't I get on the train? It's just sitting there.
Conductor:I am making sure there are no one left a bomb on the train so it doesn't blow up.
This was a lovely thing to hear especially since a funky looking package in the train.
I give up. I can use your definition and try and show to you it's a robot. I can try and explain that it's nearly impossible to build a robot without autonomous control that can be controlled halfway across the world. Impossible. Impossible. Imagine if the thing was performing surgery. The lag would kill the person if the robot did not react on it's own. That tiny fraction of a second can kill.
No, it isn't, it's still manually controlled. It won't squeeze boobies unless you use the joystick (pun intended? don't know), and tell it exactly how to move to squeeze boobies...
This is really getting ridiculous. The control system on that thing has to be a hundred times more complicated than you are making it out to be. First of all the robot system has to translate the movements of the doctors hand into some type of control signal. Then the signal is sent to the robot and the robot has to move it's hands in relation to the doctors hand. This involves the robot knowing where it's hand is at the movement and calculating where the hand should go. Next the robot (Not the doctor. He might not even be in the same country.) has to ensure that it does not harm the patient. The robot has to translate the bumps it feels into a signal and sent it to the glove where the glove translates it back into the bumps. All the while the machine has to react to any lag involved with the system. So yeah going by your original definition it's a robot. Not only that but it probably relies on two computers since it's teleoperated.
Whoops... Anyway your definition still is not appropriate for that device. Replace walking robot with robotic arm and pretty much my point remains valid. The device still needs some autonomous programing for it to work. Especially if you don't want it to squeeze the boobies too much.:)
Dictionaries are annoying. They usually post the scifi definition. The machine that I see is a bipedal robot. Obviously it needs some type of programming for it even to be controlled by remote control. It's practically impossible for anyone to try and control such a machine manually. Personally I would go for the open pino platform. The website has plans for a bipedal robot and it's completely open source. This system just appears to use an open source operating system. I would want to build the open pino system and then add my own electronics. http://www.symbio.jst.go.jp/PINO/OpenPINO/open_pin o.html
He does but so do two hundred other people own a trademark for something that contains the word stealth. The idiot doesn't realize that trademarks also involve the products used. He can only sue if the product name is the same. Hence the reason why the word has been trademarked in one form or another five hundred times. Also, the word sneaks is trademarked all ready. It's just a matter of people not knowing the law.
That seems a bit excessive for a product that will only be out a year. It seems risky for someone that is not entirely familiar with the video game industry. How much money did the PS2 lose when it first came out?
In other news, Sears is being sued for failing to conduct background checks on the purchasers of air conditioners. It seems foreign assassins have been dropping them out of windows and killing unsuspecting Americans.
Lol. Your post that is meant to be sarcastic is actually pretty close to the truth. I don't know what the law is called but if you sell beer to a perosn that appears to be intoxicated then you can be held liable if that person does something illegal.
Hey. I agree. I realized after I made the first post that Americans are not the only people who visit slashdot. Im sorry about that. We are probably the only people who use those terms in that way.
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For a second there I thought the book was about the people mentioned here. [url:http://www.badastronomy.com/]
What you mean to say is that we build everything so that people who can walk can just reach across without bending down. Without that little tibit, there would be one or two problems with people in wheelchairs. Those would be getting in and out of cars, curbs, and stairs in buildings that don't have elevators. In fact those are the only problems my grandpa has and he uses a walker. There really is nowhere on his farm he can't go without his ride on lawnmower. I can't even think of anywhere a person could be that he can't go using a wheelchair. (including stairs but you would need Dean Kamens wheelchair) Robots can get by perfectly with wheels. Joseph Engelberger said,"Wheeled robots can do the same job as walking robots. If they need to upstairs all they need to do is use the elevator."
The classic series is now super cheap. You can find those games for 14.99 and I believe 9.99 depending on the title.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0262 072254/qid=1121264721/sr=1-26/ref=sr_1_26/002-1325 925-7826433?v=glance&s=books
This book is an interesting look at the differnt robots that have been controled online. It provides information about how differnt robotics experts created robots that are controled online.
This article reminds me of two solar cells concepts that are being created. The first one that I remember is one that is using the proteins from spinach to actually create power. Here is a link. http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040605/fob2. asp
Also, I actually created a crude solar cell from either rasberries or blackberries at a science musuem. It actually worked. Now all that needs to be done is to stop the cells from breaking down.
I noticed that this is the second video game that has been retrofitted for outdoors. Pac man was the first one that I know of. I wonder how many of these games can actually be made for the outdoors.http://www.pacmanhattan.com/about.php
If the environment was that prone to fires then how do the scientists know the fires were not caused by lighting? It's one thing to blame humans but it's another thing to completely ignore one of the main causes of fires.
I agree with what you are saying but there is a particular area of robotics that this can fit under. The term is called telerobotics. It's basically the use of robotics to create give the person a feeling of being in another place. This allows them to control whatever the want to. This is the best information that I could find unfortunately. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepresence
Poke your eyes out.
Actually, I have used self heating devices before when I went camping. They are really good glove warmers.
Hehehe... My mom told me the other day my great grandpa used to bundle up a bunch of trash and ride the New York subway knowing it would be stolen. He would laugh at the gu opening up the package as he got off the train.
This whole entire story reminds me of a discussion that I overheard in Boston while waiting to get on a train. Man:I want to get on the train now. Conductor:Im sorry I can't let you get on the train. Man:Why can't I get on the train? It's just sitting there. Conductor:I am making sure there are no one left a bomb on the train so it doesn't blow up. This was a lovely thing to hear especially since a funky looking package in the train.
I give up. I can use your definition and try and show to you it's a robot. I can try and explain that it's nearly impossible to build a robot without autonomous control that can be controlled halfway across the world. Impossible. Impossible. Imagine if the thing was performing surgery. The lag would kill the person if the robot did not react on it's own. That tiny fraction of a second can kill.
Whoops... Anyway your definition still is not appropriate for that device. Replace walking robot with robotic arm and pretty much my point remains valid. The device still needs some autonomous programing for it to work. Especially if you don't want it to squeeze the boobies too much.:)
http://robogames.net/rules/robo-one.shtml http://www.robo-one.or.kr/english/ Muahahha.... Walking robots of doom. They are so cute. I could imagine the slashdot community getting involved with this.
Dictionaries are annoying. They usually post the scifi definition. The machine that I see is a bipedal robot. Obviously it needs some type of programming for it even to be controlled by remote control. It's practically impossible for anyone to try and control such a machine manually. Personally I would go for the open pino platform. The website has plans for a bipedal robot and it's completely open source. This system just appears to use an open source operating system. I would want to build the open pino system and then add my own electronics. http://www.symbio.jst.go.jp/PINO/OpenPINO/open_pin o.html
He does but so do two hundred other people own a trademark for something that contains the word stealth. The idiot doesn't realize that trademarks also involve the products used. He can only sue if the product name is the same. Hence the reason why the word has been trademarked in one form or another five hundred times. Also, the word sneaks is trademarked all ready. It's just a matter of people not knowing the law.
That seems a bit excessive for a product that will only be out a year. It seems risky for someone that is not entirely familiar with the video game industry. How much money did the PS2 lose when it first came out?
Lol. Your post that is meant to be sarcastic is actually pretty close to the truth. I don't know what the law is called but if you sell beer to a perosn that appears to be intoxicated then you can be held liable if that person does something illegal.
How many people have had problems involving click fraud?
Hey. I agree. I realized after I made the first post that Americans are not the only people who visit slashdot. Im sorry about that. We are probably the only people who use those terms in that way.