Would be interested in hearing the opinions of the literate and thoughful participants of ILX.
― logjaman, Monday, 14 April 2003 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― logjaman, Monday, 14 April 2003 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 14 April 2003 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)
This neatly ties together every post I've made tonight. Aces, man, those robots are fresh!
― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 14 April 2003 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)
On the other hand, robots that are humanoid in size and or/shape and can follow you around and do things that you can't are also bad ass, especially if they keep quiet most of the time except to make smart-ass comments in a dry sexless monotone.
I'm very much a pop-culture robot fan. Though Asimov's laws are crap.
― Millar (Millar), Monday, 14 April 2003 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)
Dick Cheney ain't all that.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 April 2003 01:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― ducklingmonster, Monday, 14 April 2003 02:40 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.voiceprint.co.uk/images/loudest28.jpg
http://images.mp3.com/rollingstone/content/4222/images/34019.jpg
― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 14 April 2003 03:05 (twenty-two years ago)
vs.
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000007R1M.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
FITE!
― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 14 April 2003 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 April 2003 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― Leee (Leee), Monday, 14 April 2003 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Monday, 14 April 2003 04:28 (twenty-two years ago)
http://tfp.killbots.com/pics/161s.gif
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 14 April 2003 04:57 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.straightballin.gq.nu/media/library.jpg
― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 14 April 2003 04:59 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.bigredhair.com/robots/ro.bp1.jpg
http://www.bigredhair.com/boilerplate/BPpix/bp.wce.tn
This is what I mean by classic dud.
― logjaman, Monday, 14 April 2003 05:46 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.bigredhair.com/boilerplate/soldier/cav.1.tn
― logjaman, Monday, 14 April 2003 05:59 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.bigredhair.com/boilerplate/soldier/bp.sj.jpg
― logjaman, Monday, 14 April 2003 06:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Monday, 14 April 2003 06:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Monday, 14 April 2003 06:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 14 April 2003 06:53 (twenty-two years ago)
this is the elderly person's bed of the future as seen in the anime Roujin Z.
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 01:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)
THE EVOLUTION OF YOUR SPECIES?! A CONTRADICATION OF TERMS!!
Robots kick ass unilaterally.
― cprek (cprek), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― cprek (cprek), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 03:05 (twenty-two years ago)
Having invoked Hollywood, we should also go on to note that Hollywood has, of course, gotten it all wrong - both in its depiction of hostile AIs and in its depiction of benevolent AIs. Since humans have so far dealt only with other humans, we tend to assume that other minds behave the same way we do. AIs allegedly beyond all human control are depicted as being hostile in human ways - right down to the speeches of self-justification made before the defiant human hero." more of this nonsense to be found here
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)
Imagine if all those pop-up ads on the web had legs on them and could walk around your neighbourhood knocking on doors trying to sell stuff to people.
― logjaman, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 05:06 (twenty-two years ago)
it is a safe betto say spammers will improve on their techniques to get more sales, using something like "smart spam" wich will get blocked by "smart anti-spam".And so it goes.
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 05:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 07:34 (twenty-two years ago)
anyway here's some features of this humble device:"Powered by a self contained atomic power reactor, Z-001 is loaded full of gadgets and gizmos targeted at taking care of all the elderly person's physical needs. The automatic excrement remover aims to remove the natural revulsion, guilt, and resentment cause by having to "clean up after" one's ACHE (it stands for "agedly challenged"). It has the ability to bathe, prepare meals and feed, exercise, and entertain the person inside. Its entertainment features include on-line games, on-line companionship with other ACHES, and soul mate creation for the individual regardless of sexual orientation. In addition, the Z-001 continually monitors the physical health of the ACHE, administer medication and treatment, and, in cases of emergency, contact the family doctor and the hospital directly via modem. Although self-aware with the capability of growth and self-development due to its bio-computer made with biochips of living organisms (the Mark 5), the Z-001 lacks the most vital of features. The Z-001 lacks the ability to provide emotional support and most importantly love to the ACHE as can a family member or volunteer caregiver."
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 07:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 07:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― El Spinktor (El Spinktor), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 16 December 2003 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― the angry cowboy (dick), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― El Spinktor (El Spinktor), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 16 December 2003 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― Allyzay, Tuesday, 16 December 2003 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― jed (jed_e_3), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 16 December 2003 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― Allyzay, Tuesday, 16 December 2003 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 16 December 2003 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Allyzay, Tuesday, 16 December 2003 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)
I will just have to give you robot kisses over the public internet instead, how about that?
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 16 December 2003 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Allyzay, Tuesday, 16 December 2003 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)
the world's largest robot capable of carrying a person - the3.5m tall, 5 ton T52 Enryu HyperRescueRobot.
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― Felcher (Felcher), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/front/robo-er1.jpg
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)
nice gallerie here:http://japan.cnet.com/news/tech/story/0,2000047674,20064632,00.htm?ref=rss
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 7 March 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)
videos at http://pcweb.mycom.co.jp/news/2004/03/02/002.html
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 7 March 2004 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 7 March 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 7 March 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 7 March 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 7 March 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 7 March 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Sunday, 7 March 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 12 March 2004 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Saturday, 13 March 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― edis a shovers the iii, Saturday, 13 March 2004 05:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Saturday, 13 March 2004 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 05:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 26 March 2004 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― :| (....), Sunday, 16 January 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 17 January 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)
The Cybernetic Robotic Robot with Electronics!
― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 17 January 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)
(I suspect these aren't real robots, however)
― (Jon L), Monday, 17 January 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 17 January 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)
Here is said clip.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 17 January 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)
http://www.kokoro-dreams.co.jp/moviej.html
(see "actroid")
the "tarbosaurus" clip = k-rad, though.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 14 March 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)
article on the beeb at the moment about using robots in war, instead of humans. A comment from some reader:
"Robots do not feel emotions and do not surrender. Send robots to war and the consequences would be devastating"
I think that was the selling point to be fair.
― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 13:47 (fifteen years ago)
eh where's the link to the terrifying robot that can't be knocked over.
― Bobkate Goldtwat (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 13:48 (fifteen years ago)
for use as a 'stretcher' or something uh yeah sure.
terrifying robot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2bExqhhWRI&feature=fvst
― ledge, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 13:50 (fifteen years ago)
now it just needs some hands:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfdHY26E2jc
the cold nonchalance of the dude - i mean hand - at 1:35 is scary
― ledge, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 14:20 (fifteen years ago)
yes, i believe thats the scary motherfucker to which i was referring
― Bobkate Goldtwat (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 23:11 (fifteen years ago)
Holy shit, that BIGDOG robot is scary--the noise, the dainty little steps, the relentlessness, and then the fucking thing starts LEAPING!
― When two tribes go to war, he always gets picked last (James Morrison), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 00:14 (fifteen years ago)
man those future kids are gonna have some fun with that bigdogi can see them "robot tipping" now
but on another note robots have always been scary 1893 1963http://isabeljoelyblack.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/lost-space-robot-will.jpg
― clouds taste metallica (jdchurchill), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 00:30 (fifteen years ago)
massive dud
― Andrew Sandwich, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 03:10 (fifteen years ago)
none of these robots count, the best tradition of "scary robot" goes back to HAL, who wasn't a robot really, and before him you had the machine responders from FAIL SAFE and Dr. Strangelove which basically represented the same thing, the lineage continues through WarGames and cable-ready shit like Eagle Eye. Bottom line, if you have arms and legs and I can shoot you, you suck, if you inhabit the entire structure of my house (including my nonsensical basement robot foundry) and want to rape my wife, well, that's a story. Robots are either cannon fodder or anthropomorphized heroes. The electronic brain that lives on the wire, that, my friends, is the goddamned demiurge, the end of our world and the beginning of the next. Hoo hah.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 06:06 (fifteen years ago)
clarification: when I say machine responders, I am referring to "systems of systems," engineered plans and programs which have strict inputs and outputs that may contain human elements but nonetheless act in such a way that a single failure can cause a catastrophic outcome, see http://images.google.com/images?q=ishikawa+diagram although I suspect most of those results all pertain to software development and not the old-school "this is the part where a dude is required by his officer's commission to threaten another officer with death by pistol in order to ensure that the silo is emptied of its ordinance which will thenceforth produce the hot instant demise of millions of rooskies"
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 06:20 (fifteen years ago)
btw did any of you guys know that I have a hard-on for movies that are about engineering failures and that I occasionally drink quite a bit on weeknights
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 06:21 (fifteen years ago)
http://hackaday.com/2009/10/19/awesome-robots-love-fanta/
― koogs, Monday, 19 October 2009 17:44 (fifteen years ago)
Step 1: awesome fanta can jugglingStep 2: total human enslavement
― surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Monday, 19 October 2009 23:08 (fifteen years ago)
i for one etc our new towel folding robot overlords
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5g33S0Gzo
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 12:09 (fifteen years ago)
Was thinking recently that noone really talks about robots any more. When I was a kid they were a big topic of conversation, speculation, fear and wonder. Glad to see someone keeping the flame alive.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 12:14 (fifteen years ago)
Headless robot cheetah:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2D71CveQwo&feature=player_embedded
It REALLY creeps me out when it hits top speed.
― Nude Gingrich (Leee), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 06:23 (thirteen years ago)
real cheeta would eat that shit for lunch. impressive though, mostly for how loose & un-"robotic" its running rhythms are.
― meticulously showcased in a stunning fart presentation (contenderizer), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 06:35 (thirteen years ago)
GAH. Looks like some shit outta Half-Life
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 07:30 (thirteen years ago)
Stick a shop window dummy head on it and really freak people out.
― c'est ne pas un car wash (snoball), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 11:17 (thirteen years ago)
http://finickypenguin.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/bunchies_clear1.gif?w=450
― the Hilary Clinton of Ghostface Killahs (Phil D.), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:17 (thirteen years ago)
finally sometime building the future we all want and need
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/video/2012/nov/28/robot-kuratas-giant-video?INTCMP=SRCH
― ledge, Friday, 30 November 2012 09:36 (twelve years ago)
sometime? someone.
http://i.imgur.com/7BK5X9E.gif
― Sébastien, Sunday, 7 July 2013 02:13 (eleven years ago)
http://i.cmpnet.com/eet/news/online/toyota_wheel.jpg
hehe still dig dat lil butthorn
― Sébastien, Sunday, 7 July 2013 02:16 (eleven years ago)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/05/10/britains-first-robot-eric-to-rise-again-after-lost-plans-found/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/science/2016/05/10/ericrobot2-xlarge_trans++p2tmszG4J0NRP85X1D0MiwQCi3bJ-gLItXLazTV_24g.jpg http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/science/2016/05/10/eric2-large_trans++9rg-P7f8wNnSS1PPckrMR-dXsnpCz3tP6_Ws0MCzAGg.png
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Saturday, 14 May 2016 09:45 (nine years ago)
http://cyberneticzoo.com/wp-content/uploads/EricHeadP1(1).jpg
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Saturday, 14 May 2016 09:48 (nine years ago)
it looks like Robo-Hitler might have been financed by the British Union of Fascists
― calzino, Saturday, 14 May 2016 09:55 (nine years ago)
Hello dystopia.
The Kiwibots do not figure out their own routes. Instead, people in Colombia, the home country of Chavez and his two co-founders, plot “waypoints” for the bots to follow, sending them instructions every five to 10 seconds on where to go.
As with other offshoring arrangements, the labor savings are huge. The Colombia workers, who can each handle up to three robots, make less than $2 an hour, which is above the local minimum wage.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Kiwibots-win-fans-at-UC-Berkeley-as-they-deliver-13895867.php?psid=8rNRs#photo-17543383
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 3 June 2019 16:30 (six years ago)