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ShelterWolf |
Lovely Robot News w/a side of pancakes
Jul 23 2010, 2:33 AM EDT
The Loneliest Humanoid in AmericaIts name is CHARLI-L (the “L” stands for “Lightweight” and the rest for “Cognitive Humanoid Autonomous Robot with Learning Intelligence”). Created at Virginia Tech, it’s America’s first true humanoid, in that it requires no remote power source or computer, it stands roughly five feet tall and has arms and legs, and it walks—left, right, left, right—like a human... http://www.popsci.com/node/47124/?cmpid=enews072210 Gallery: Humanoid Robots From Around the World 12 images of lovely robots, mostly Korean, so they smell like Kimchee: http://www.popsci.com/node/47252/?cmpid=enews072210 Cornell's Ranger Robot Power-Walks into the Record Books With 14.3-Mile Stroll Slow and steady really does win the race. A diminutive robot perched atop stork-like legs has slowly strode beyond BigDog’s world record for robotic walking, making a continuous 11-hour trek around an indoor running track at Cornell University that covered 14.3 miles. Ranger, developed by Cornell’s Biorobotics and Locomotion Lab, made 108.5 laps around the running track at roughly 700 feet per lap, logging something like 70,000 steps on a single charge. The untethered ‘bot was controlled remotely by human handlers using a simple toy remote control... http://www.popsci.com/node/47287/?cmpid=enews072210 11 hours at a remote sounds like a world record in itself. Do you find this valuable?
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ShelterWolf |
1. Gallery: Rise of The Helpful Terminators
Jul 29 2010, 10:23 PM EDT
A Forklift For Humans - Based on an anime characterThe Only Wheelchair with Robotic Arms - AKA dentist's chair gone mad A Plainspoken Personal Assistant for Grandma - basically a laptop on robot wheels and a worthless robot head. The Fastest, Most Capable Robo-Servant - also picks your pocket when you're not looking A Robotic “Touch Therapist” Soothes - AKA biofeedback 'bot for insecure people's A Legally Blind Robotic Guinea Pig for Testing Artificial Eyes - send this into robot wars, "you wouldn't hit a 'bot with glasses - would you?" A Fully Immersive Rehab Robot - "the matrix" 'bot takes you to different worlds w/o fear of getting killed. A Robo-Surgeon that Does the Work of Two Doctors - AKA, Saw V's mad doctor vengeance 'bot from hell. The Slinkiest Surgical Tool - goes up your butt to perform heart surgery The Richard Simmons of Robots - AKA Frosty the Fitness Freak, coming to a 24 Hour Fitness near yo mama. http://www.popsci.com/technology/gallery/2010-07/gallery-rise-helpful-machines Where's CamBot? Lord knows dat little cyborg is super helpful. She make pancake, loads up the AK47, makes more pancake, kills the bad termies, fetches birthday cakes, get's naked on a whim, makes more pancake, does the washing and ironing, dresses up real nice in designer clothes and she's always clean, takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'. what mo can you ask fo? Do you find this valuable? |
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ShelterWolf |
2. RE: Japanese rescue-bot can sniff out disaster survivors (w/ Video)
Jul 30 2010, 8:26 PM EDT
Japanese emergency services are to trial a small tank-like rescue robot that can search rubble for survivors and deliver water, food or cellphones in disaster zones... http://www.physorg.com/news199683839.htmlThis thing is slow and cumbersome. What would be better is a 'bot that slithers around like it's made of liquid metal. It can have a bunch of tentacles and a long tail. If a rescue victim wants to make a call, the bot jumps on the victim's face wraps its tail and tentacles around the victims neck and head and inserts a "call tube" into his mouth. The rescue 'bot can lay a bunch of nanobots into the victim's mouth to repair his wounds and make him stronger! Then a cyborg monster busts out of the victim's stomach at dinner time! Do you find this valuable? |
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ShelterWolf |
3. Possessed zombie robot child from hell
Aug 1 2010, 9:40 PM EDT
Possessed zombie robot child from hell walks around with a wheel barrel stuck up his butt while grabbing people's crotches:http://www.disclose.tv/members/action/viewvideo/50620/CREEPY_CHILD_ROBOT_/ Do you find this valuable? |
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4. New Japanese Telepresence Robot Pushes the Boundaries of Creepy
Aug 6 2010, 6:26 PM EDT
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Maybe it's just us, but some Japanese robots are a special brand of creepy. The moaning mouth was bad enough, but now there's this tadpole-shaped telepresence robot, hereby christened Larvabot.The Telenoid R1 is meant to be a minimalist human, so details are restricted to its eyes and face, which are strangely realistic. Its body is limited to flipper-like arms and a stylized torso that ends in a mermaid-ish taper. It is the newest creation of Japanese roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, a professor at Osaka University known for creating telepresence androids, designed to "transmit the presence" of people to another place. Telenoid users interact with people at a distance through a laptop, as shown in the video below. The control system tracks the user's face and head motion and captures his or her voice, then relays them to Telenoid, which expresses them. It's about 31 inches tall and weighs 11 pounds... http://www.popsci.com/node/47519/?cmpid=enews080510 Would you want this little weirdo rep'g you at important business meetings? I guess, if you prefer not to be seen. The telenoid can also be a time saver. I say load it up with canned responses. Instead of trying to articulate your ideas, you can have this little bastard do any of the following: *Fart *Burp *Breathe fire *Projectile vomit (of any liquid substance like pea green soup) *Alien creature explode from belly *Impersonate any human voice, animal sound, or demonic monster *Play your fav tunes *Combinations, like all of the above simultaneously Telenoid reminds me of that possessed tequila worm turned evil humanoid crawly thing in the Poltergeist 2. Telenoid should be able to crawl around too, then it can pick up its head to give people the evil eye until it gets a shot of tequila. Do you find this valuable? |
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5. Terminators that develop emotions in interaction with humans
Aug 12 2010, 10:19 PM EDT
The first prototype robots capable of developing emotions as they interact with their human caregivers and expressing a whole range of emotions have been finalised by researchers.Led by Dr. Lola Cameroñero at the University of Hartfardtshire, and in collaboration with a consortium of universities and erotic companies across Europe, these robots differ from others in the way that they form attachments, interact and express emotion through bodily expression. Developed as part of the interdisciplinary project FEELIX GROWING (Feel, Interact, eXpress: a Global approach to development with Interdisciplinary Grounding), funded by the European Commission and coordinated by Dr. Cameroñero, the robots have been developed so that they learn to interact with and respond to humans in a similar way as children learn to do it, and use the same types of expressive and behavioural cues that babies use to learn to interact socially and emotionally with others. The robots have been created through modelling the early anti-social process of psychotic behavior that human and chimpanzee infants undergo with their abusers when they develop the stockholm syndrom for a primary caregiver... http://www.physorg.com/news200850232.html Do you find this valuable? |
The1Russter |
6. RE: Terminators that develop emotions in interaction with humans
Aug 12 2010, 10:29 PM EDT
Who needs science fiction with this crazy sh*t happening.Some of this is really off the wall crazy, maybe even scary, or maybe I'm just tired. Do you find this valuable? |
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ShelterWolf |
7. Google's back to school robo projects
Aug 26 2010, 7:00 PM EDT
Robots explore a Lego lunar surfaceIn the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship made famous by Google's $30 million Lunar X Prize, a private race to safely land a robot on the surface of the moon, travel 500 meters across the lunar surface, and send images and data back to the Earth, the X Prize Foundation, Lego, and Google have partnered to develop a youth educational challenge. Similarly based on engineering, science, and problem solving, teams from around the world are working to build and program a robot that can navigate obstacles and complete tasks on the simulated lunar Lego game board. Just as the Lunar X Prize is intended to engage more people in the possibilities of commercial space exploration, MoonBots is fueling an increased connection to space innovation for a new generation of future explorers. During the initial design phase of the competition, teams were required to submit a digital Robot Design Proposal created using either LDRAW, LEGO Digital Designer, or Google SketchUp. During the build process, teams were required to document their work through a series of writing, blogs, photos, and video essays discussing the design, concept, and importance of moon exploration. During the month-long open application process, 212 teams submitted proposals for Lego lunar robots, and of those 212, 20 teams were selected to move on to the Mission Round: one attempt at a three-minute Live Mission Webcast to complete the necessary tasks on the game board. http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10004618.html?tag=nl.e703 Do you find this valuable? |
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8. Why tadpoles fly out when Cammie blows her nose
Aug 26 2010, 7:41 PM EDT
Robot with frog egg smell sensor (w/ Video)Researchers from the University of Tokyo have invented a novel means of improving a robot's sense of smell, by using inexpensive olfactory sensors containing frog eggs. The researchers, Nobuo Misawaa, Hidefumi Mitsunob, Ryohei Kanzakic, and Shoji Takeuchi, used eggs from the African Clawed Frog (Xenopus laevis) to build their sensors. Eggs from this frog have been used in many laboratories to express olfactory receptors, and their protein expression mechanisms are well understood. This is the first time frog eggs have been used in a robot. The immature eggs were harvested and then injected with DNA from fruit flies, silk moths and diamond back moths, which stimulated the eggs to produce the olfactory sensors of these insects. Takeuchi, a bioengineer at the University, said the eggs basically acted as a platform for the parts of the insect DNA that have been shown in the past to be responsible for detecting gases, odors, and pheromones... http://www.physorg.com/news202027789.html Do you find this valuable? |
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The1Russter |
9. RE: Why tadpoles fly out when Cammie blows her nose
Aug 27 2010, 6:41 PM EDT
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This article from the magazine Smithsonian seems appropriate to this thread.
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ShelterWolf |
10. RE: Why tadpoles fly out when Cammie blows her nose
Sep 5 2010, 8:02 PM EDT
I think that article was written in 1950. Humming? Burning electrical wires? Sounds more like a plug in a sux toy." What about the present american version of a telepresence bot? " The Boss Is Robotic, and Rolling Up Behind You:" http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/science/05robots.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&th&emc=th These are probably far more advanced than anything they had in the 1950's, but are still eons behind in imagination. At least the Japanese came up with larva bots. Those are a scream! Imagine marrying that little bastard! Do you find this valuable? |
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ShelterWolf |
11. Who wants an Emo-Bot for Xmas?
Sep 17 2010, 9:50 PM EDT
Emotional robot petsDesigners of robot pets are fighting a never-ending battle with consumers to provide entertaining and realistic gadgets that respond to human interaction in ever more nuanced ways, mimicking the behavior of real pet animals or even people. Researchers in Taiwan are now looking at a new design paradigm that could see the development of a robot vision module that might one-day recognize human facial expressions and respond appropriately. Part of the problem is that robot design takes a long time, while the consumer life cycle of any given product is very short. Moreover, fixed prototypes and repetitive behavior in domestic robots for entertainment is no longer of interest to sophisticated users. Today, they expect their robot pets to be almost as good as the "robots" they see in 3D movies and games. The researchers, Wei-Po Lee, Tsung-Hsien Yang and Bingchiang Jeng of National Sun Yat-sen University, have now turned to neural networks to help them break the cycle of repetitive behavior in robot toys and to endow them with almost emotional responses to interactions... http://www.physorg.com/news203939152.html What about an emo-PC? It can sense how horny I am and take me to the appropriate websites. What about emo-cable tv? It senses how horny I am and switches to the spice network. What about an emo-car? It senses how horny I am and takes me to... Do you find this valuable? |
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ShelterWolf |
12. So, Why Can't Terminators Swim?
Oct 2 2010, 7:51 PM EDT
Underwater robot swims free thanks to newly-designed wireless controller (w/ Video)AQUA, an amphibious, otter-like robot, is small and nimble, with flippers rather than propellers, designed for intricate data collection from shipwrecks and reefs. The robot, a joint project of York, McGill and Dalhousie universities, can now be controlled wirelessly using a waterproof tablet built at York. While underwater, divers can program the tablet to display tags onscreen, similar to barcodes read by smartphones. The robot's on-board camera then scans these two-dimensional tags to receive and carry out commands. Cutting the cord on underwater robots has been a longstanding challenge for scientists; water interferes with radio signals, hindering traditional wireless communication via modem. Tethered communication is cumbersome and can create safety issues for divers... The tablet also allows divers to command the robot much as if they were using a video game joystick; turn the tablet right and AQUA turns right, too. In this mode, the robot is connected to the tablet by a slim length of optical cable, circumventing many of the issues of a robot-to-surface tether. The optical cable also allows AQUA to provide video feedback from its camera to the operator. In a totally wireless mode, the robot acknowledges prompts by flashing its on-board light. Its cameras can be used to build 3-D models of the environment which can then be used to guide the robot to particular tasks... http://www.physorg.com/news205082959.html OK, someone please explain to me why liquid termies can swim but solids can't. Did you see that video? It's just a box with fins. Why would Skynet make termies that can't float? Why not make them all swimmers? that would make them so much more threatening to the resistence. Do you find this valuable? |
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13. RE: So, Why Can't Terminators Swim?
Oct 4 2010, 11:00 AM EDT
"Very interesting video. Now for your question about why liquid metal terminators can swim, but the cybernetic ones can't. The hyper-alloy combat chassis of the cybernetic organisms would make the to dense and not buoyant enough to be able to swim. That's not saying they couldn't kick their legs harder than a human and propel themselves through the water. more rapidly, but that lack of buoyancy would be a problem for staying on the surface. A liquid metal terminator could adjust it's molecules to a more liquid state (molecules are not as dense) and be just another liquid swimming in liquid. Humans are what, 60% water or more, so we are just another liquid swimming in liquid with a membrane that keeps our liquid inside our bodies. Do you find this valuable? |
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ShelterWolf |
14. RE: So, Why Can't Terminators Swim?
Oct 4 2010, 4:54 PM EDT
OK, but why doesn't Skynet build them like submarines? Surely there's a place in there for a compressed air tank. What about that space where John was reaching inside Cammie? Isn't that enough room for a compressed air tank?
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15. RE: So, Why Can't Terminators Swim?
Oct 4 2010, 6:49 PM EDT
"OK, but why doesn't Skynet build them like submarines? Surely there's a place in there for a compressed air tank. What about that space where John was reaching inside Cammie? Isn't that enough room for a compressed air tank?"Maybe there could be an inflateable section of skin that could act as a life jacket of sorts to give a Terminator more neutral bouyancy. Something like water wing arms or a backpack that fills up with the compressed air to aid in floatation. Do you find this valuable? |
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ShelterWolf |
16. So, Your Baby Bro' Wants to be a Terminator
Oct 7 2010, 10:49 PM EDT
Good for you! It will only cost you US$21,000 to get him a Gasoline-Powered Robotic Exoskeleton Designed Just for Kids: http://www.popsci.com/node/48783/?cmpid=enews100710. It's 400 lbs of bone crushing fun! All it needs are a few on board weapons like flame thrower, gatling gun, missle launcher and your baby bro' is good to go! Hey, if the mighty morphin' high school rangers can play with "mecha-zoids" weighing 100's of tons, why not start them early? Do you find this valuable? |
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17. Researchers fooled into believing what babies think about robots
Oct 21 2010, 4:25 PM EDT
In New Study, Babies Think A Silvery Robot Is Human, As Long As It Acts FriendlyA study at the University of Washington's Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences took a sample of 64 18-month-old babies, who were all tested individually. The experimental test had the babies sit on their parents' laps, facing a remote-controlled humanoid robot. Sitting next to the robot was Rechele Brooks, one of the researchers on the study. Brooks and the robot (controlled remotely by an unseen researcher) would then engage in a 90-second skit, in which Brooks interacted with the robot as if it was a child, asking questions like "Where is your tummy?" and "Where is your head?" The robot would in turn point to its different parts. The robot would also imitate a few arm movements, like waving back and forth... In 13 out of 16 cases, the baby would follow the robot's gaze, suggesting that the baby sees the robot as a sentient being, that what the robot looks at might be of interest to the baby as well. Babies at that age distinguish between, say, a swivel chair's movement and a person's movement, and will only follow the person. But in following the robot, the study suggests that the baby has decided that robot is a human being... http://bit.ly/9OxHqu Does this mean that if a baby follows the gaze of a squirrel that he thinks the squirrel is a human being? Or have university researchers gone bonkers wasting time with nonsense research? What about this for a study? Have Cammie in one of her tight little outfits interact with a researcher in front of a teenage boy for 90 seconds, then leave Cammie and the teenage boy alone to watch the results... Do you find this valuable? |
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18. Stealth Girl's Shower Room Bot Knows Where to Hide
Mar 23 2011, 9:34 PM EDT
A new generation of sneaky bots were unleashed on the world today when researchers at Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Laboratory showed off a robot that is designed to be super stealthy around humans.The bot is more than just small, and quiet, two factors that make it much harder to spot than a humanoid model. The robot, which does not seem to have a name at this time, hopes to be stealth by understanding how humans perceive the world around them, and making a series of educated guesses. The bot listens for sounds of human activity and the based on those sounds, and some clever programming, makes a guess as to where the humans might be looking. Then, if it needs to, the robot will find itself a dark hiding spot. Of course, the obvious question is, how does the robot know where it is, let alone where you are? Well our little mechanized friend is equipped with a 3D laser scanner that allows the bot to create detailed maps of the building or area it is in. Along with a set of acoustic sensors that allow the robot to localize footsteps and voices, it can make a fairly accurate predictions about where you are on the map. When the robot sense a human is near it takes its pre-determined escape route to the dark and waits for the danger to pass, which means it may not be so stealthy in places lacking darkness or escape routes, but the pretty much just puts it on par with humans. http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-stealthy-robot.html Hey, wasn't there a nerd movie with a camera mounted on a RC car that was taking a tour of a sorority? I guess that would make it a Voyeur-bot. Of course, the same bot can be just as easily equipped with a bomb. A Termi-naut? Do you find this valuable? |
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19. Frankenstein's Modular Robot Parts
Mar 24 2011, 7:51 PM EDT
iMobot rolls, crawls and creepsA single iMobot module has four controllable degrees of freedom, with two joints in the center section and two wheels, one on each end. An individual module can drive on its wheels, crawl like an inchworm, or raise one end of its body and pan around as a camera platform. Individual modules could be assembled into larger robots for particular tasks, such as a snakelike robot that could get into confined spaces, or a larger, wheeled robot for smoother terrain. "We wanted to create a robot that was modular and could be assembled together, but was also mobile and useful by itself. We feel this hardware platform could drastically speed up university and industry research in the field of robotics," Ryland said... By using an off-the-shelf commercial robot like iMobot, researchers can focus on solving problems in areas such as artificial intelligence, robot collaboration, and reconfigurable and adaptive systems, without having to first develop the hardware part of the robot... http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-imobot.html Do you find this valuable? |
