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www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/04/nasa_r2_robot/

How awesome are they? Or are you terrified?
(PsychoChomp, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 11:32, 20 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

10 GET COCK
20 UP 25, DOWN 25
30 GOTO 10
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 11:37, Reply)

That's pretty Basic

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 11:44, Reply)

Fortranately, I'm not a complex person.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 11:48, Reply)

I C what you did there

( djtrialprice, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 11:52, Reply)

Fancy a fruit Pascal?

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 11:56, Reply)

I'd rather not dbase myself any further.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 12:01, Reply)

I'm going to make you SQ(uea)L for that one

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 12:09, Reply)

Aspecially for you.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 12:10, Reply)

We are assembling quite a lisp here

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 12:19, Reply)

Fortranning purposes only

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 12:28, Reply)

well obviously robot =awesome
but I can't help wondering what the actual functional advantage is in making them human shaped.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 9 Feb 2010, 11:49, Reply)

I think it's so if they break down a person could use their tools.
or something.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 11:59, Reply)

Naah, It is so they are shaggable
Without the interspecies guilt thing.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 12:02, Reply)

makes sence of the hands I suppose
but why not give them more armes for example and the head, i assume is contains a camera and it's in a good place for that but making it head shaped? It's just pointless anthropomorphism.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 9 Feb 2010, 12:06, Reply)

For someone who can spell 'anthropomorphism'
you didn't half fuck the rest of that post up.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 12:13, Reply)

Ha!

(TheColonel, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 13:06, Reply)

Two ideas here
1: The robot is working alongside humans, and being controlled by them. It makes sense that the operator senses what the robot senses in a human way. If the robot bangs its knee for example, the operator would detect a banged knee. without having to think, what was that.

2: For the robot, it is working in a human environment, and needs to be able to get at the same things a human can. No use having 3 metre arms or be as big as a brief case, as the situation should not exist where it faces problems a human would not be able to solve too.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 12:17, Reply)

Pah.
Give it two years and they'll be sitting around, wanking in front of the telly and living on the dole.
( thealternativefact, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 11:49, Reply)

man, I can't wait for AI to come along
and show us that robots are just as ill-motivated as the rest of us

edit: AI, not AL. Althegeordie isn't going to show us anything.

except maybe his twig and giggleberries
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 12:09, Reply)

Clicking this edit.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 14:32, Reply)