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Check out this robot... unbelievable

Don't panic said:
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
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It made me think of Bladerunner too!
 
barneygumble said:
forget the robot look at the guy in the background, now that is creepy especially the picture on the left i can almost hear him thinking "only two years more till we can legally marry :eek:
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Agree. He's bent that thing over a few times. Nasty.
 
The other area that I believe the Japanese will initially trump the US is the area of military battle suits. We're already doing research in them, but it's much more central in the Japanese psyche. Skunkworks could prove me wrong, but I'm betting on the Japanese for now.
 
The Japanese seem more comfortable around machines than around other humans. That may explain their unnatural obsession with creating human-like robotic creatures.
 
One step closer to creating Data ;) :p I wonder where people will take this technology...

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too real

not until i see her hands that i can sorta know that the robot is "SHE", 'coz that "he" somehow looks like a robot too...lol! :D
 
GanChan said:
Well, they've been working on this since Astroboy.... :)
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Michael Jackson would be pleased.

"If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes."
 
BornAgainMac said:
Your robot will come complete with Firewire 400/800, USB 2.0, and other ports. :rolleyes:
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ok this whole thread has been absolutely hilarious, but the above brought tears to my eyes! the priceless entertainment one can find at MR :D

wow, that robot is something else, but my oh my the inspiration for jokes on THIS front ;)
 
animatronics

Except for reacting when someone pretends to slap it, I don't see that this robot can do much more than the "animatronic" robots at Disneyland and Disney World can do. And the Disney robots did that 50 years ago.

This doesn't seem like an advance in robotics so much as an advance in realistic animated sculpture. And even that is probably not much of an advance. Special effects in films used to rely on realistic-looking animated sculpture for many years before CG effects made that obsolete.
 
egamble said:
Except for reacting when someone pretends to slap it, I don't see that this robot can do much more than the "animatronic" robots at Disneyland and Disney World can do. And the Disney robots did that 50 years ago.

This doesn't seem like an advance in robotics so much as an advance in realistic animated sculpture. And even that is probably not much of an advance. Special effects in films used to rely on realistic-looking animated sculpture for many years before CG effects made that obsolete.
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More likely puppets which got you a realistic movement as well. They were doing a bunch of really cool stuff for special effects in movies before a lot of the modern technology came along. There was a silent movie which had things flying around where it was all done with people dressed in black against a black back drop. They had the art of it down to the point where not only did the film of the time not pick them up but the black of the background wasn't noticeable.

I would have to see the robot up close to really say if there was a substantial improvement in appearance. Once you get latex, and flexible pvc the real improvements come in the small details of the skin. Pores, hair, the translucency of the skin and the variations in skin tone.
 
Looks like a death trap should that thing fall over while being inside of it.
 
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