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Yet another robot with a unique ability...

HonoredShadowHonoredShadow
edited October 2010 in Chit chat
You see so many stories about robots that are being developed and it usually means the robot is unique in one way.

This one for example:

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/nov06/ResilientRobot.ws.html

Would be great when people put all these ideas together and see what they come up with.

You guys know of any robots that have fairly unique characteristics?
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  • thx1138thx1138
    edited October 2010
    I made one that gathered dust.
  • itsallgooditsallgood
    edited October 2010
    thx1138 wrote: »
    I made one that gathered dust.



    :D I like that!
  • deadpan666deadpan666
    edited October 2010
    Two or three robots in this vid...

    The Black Cauldron (PC)
  • ccowleyccowley
    edited October 2010
    HonoredShadow wrote: »
    You guys know of any robots that have fairly unique characteristics?
    I made one that can design and build better robots than itself.

    Oops.
  • milemile
    edited October 2010
    robots are shit, everytime you see them they are walking around a maze in a university, with a bloke with a beard and sandals saying how this one is celever than a cockroach.

    well done.

    as for exploration robots, just sent a dog with a camera on its head, dogs are well curious. i'd suggest a cat, but they tend to sleep a lot.

    or some speecy jap that spends a lifetime building a robot that can walk on 2 legs. erm ok, great, but whats wrong with wheels.

    people who build robots are just taking the piss.
  • ccowleyccowley
    edited October 2010
    mile wrote: »
    as for exploration robots, just sent a dog with a camera on its head, dogs are well curious.
    The russians did that in the 1950's with a dog called Laika. Shaved it's head and arse, stuck it an a metal sphere and sent it into space to see what would happen. It died (which is exactly what they expected to happen, as the only possible means of it to returning to earth was as the fuel in a fireworks dispay).

    They weren't so hot on the animal rights back then, I guess!
  • milemile
    edited October 2010
    ccowley wrote: »
    The russians did that in the 1950's with a dog called Laika. Shaved it's head and arse, stuck it an a metal sphere and sent it into space to see what would happen. It died (which is exactly what they expected to happen, as the only possible means of it to returning to earth was as the fuel in a fireworks dispay).

    They weren't so hot on the animal rights back then, I guess!

    hmmm so its ok for stalin to do something like that, but as soon as a british woman puts a cat in a bin, then suddenly she is evil.
  • beanzbeanz
    edited October 2010
    I recently got a robot vac..one of those Roomba's. The cat likes it.
  • JuanF. RamirezJuanF. Ramirez
    edited October 2010
    The coolest robot:

    2zxrw8z.jpg
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited October 2010
    Instead of drinking beer it needs to learn how to clean up those dirty kex behind it :D
    Every night is curry night!
  • JuanF. RamirezJuanF. Ramirez
    edited October 2010
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    Instead of drinking beer it needs to learn how to clean up those dirty kex behind it :D

    I was not meaning

    'robot is cool because he drinks beer'

    but

    'robot is cool because he serves me beer', a sort of butler-robot. :D

    The dirty stuff is not important... :p
  • ccowleyccowley
    edited October 2010
    JuanF. Ramirez wrote: »
    The dirty stuff is not important... :p
    The dirty stuff is always important.
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