Scary Dog Robots
All this needs is a head with laser cannons and some little men on ropes with light-sabers and your half way to a real At-AT. Which is actually a little scary.
Tags: Random, Technology, video
All this needs is a head with laser cannons and some little men on ropes with light-sabers and your half way to a real At-AT. Which is actually a little scary.
Tags: Random, Technology, video
April 11th, 2008 at 12:04 am
They’re not scary - they are your friends!
Our household recently got its first robot (http://www.roomba.com.au/) - his name is rodney and as I watch him cruise around I finally feel that all my childhood jetson fantasies are starting to come true.
-Mark
April 13th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Wheres my freakn hover car?
But really, does the robot do a good job?
April 14th, 2008 at 5:24 am
Yeah I’ve even got the shirt - http://www.plasticbag.org/images/extra/supposed_future_real.jpg, so I thought I had to buy the robot.
It took a lot of emptying the first few times, but mostly because it goes under the couch, bed, cupboards, etc where there was a lot of dust built up. Now that all that is kinda clean - you just run it once or twice a week and it does a pretty good job. However if I dumped a pile of dirt on the floor I wouldn’t use the roomba to clean it up.
April 14th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
With that buzzing and the big eyes, it’s like Jeff Goldblum walked into a lift with a fruitfly and a black labrador and that’s what walked out.
New Scientist did a feature on emotional attachment to robots a couple of weeks ago. Roombas featured heavily:
What sort of relationship are you willing to have with yours, Mark? The article is behind their subscriber paywall, but LMK and I’ll cut-and-paste it to you.
April 21st, 2008 at 3:30 am
Well my partner and I had our first child back in November. When I unpacked Rodney & as he started cruising around the house we both stood there watching and the feeling was similar (although nowhere near as profound) as bringing our baby home for the first time. So yeah I definitely relate to what that article is saying…
Another interesting thought that occurred to us was our son is going to grow up with robots in the house. People are making a big deal about gen Y having grown up with the web, mobiles and IM. Is this the start of gen Z - the generation who grow up with AI as part of their everyday life?
(Pete you should make it so posters get emails when replies are posted)
April 21st, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Mark if you know how to do the notify commenters thing then let me know. Had a quick google and couldn’t find anything. I’m sure it’s possible but couldn’t be arsed to look for it.