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Shake that (Robot) A**
Science in Seconds ^
| July 13, 2012
| Rheanna Sand
Posted on 07/17/2012 9:49:00 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Robots can do just about anything these days. They can fly. They can juggle. They can even fly in swarms and play the theme song from James Bond together. Little humanoid robots like NAO can do the evolution of dance - better than I could, admittedly. But if robots are to ever become androids, like the "fully functional" Data from Star Trek TNG, they are going to have to be touch-responsive. But making an entire robot that responds to human touch is a herculean task, so a graduate student from Japan has simplified matters by inventing - get this - an emotionally responsive set of robo-buttocks.
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: napl
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Video at source. You've been warned.
To: Slings and Arrows; Revolting cat!; JoeProBono
...a graduate student from Japan has simplified matters by inventing - get this - an emotionally responsive set of robo-buttocks.Barney Frank is considering a divorce to become the first man to marry a robutt.
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posted on
07/17/2012 9:53:37 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Eric Holder's NAACP rally against the voter ID laws required the press to bring govt issue photo ID.)
To: Slings and Arrows; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
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posted on
07/17/2012 9:54:15 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows; Bender2
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posted on
07/17/2012 9:55:34 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1273 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...)
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
07/17/2012 9:55:56 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
I've already bought houses for 3 wimmenz that hate me.
Ain't buying one for a robot.
/johnny
To: Slings and Arrows; Salamander
Get back to me when they start making them look like Joanna Cassidy in Blade Runner -
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posted on
07/17/2012 10:01:13 PM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: Slings and Arrows
>
Video at source. You've been warned. Robot soft pr0n. Who knew there was such a thing?
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posted on
07/17/2012 10:25:38 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: dayglored
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posted on
07/17/2012 10:31:21 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
>
Rule 34 Ah, right you are. Silly of me... Cogito ergo sum; sum ergo pr0n.
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posted on
07/17/2012 10:39:44 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: Slings and Arrows
Great. This makes robot plumbers possible.
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posted on
07/17/2012 10:58:27 PM PDT
by
M1911A1
To: shibumi
Other fashion accessories may come and go but Boas just never go out of style.
:)
[okay...so it’s actually a Burmese Python but what the hell]
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posted on
07/17/2012 11:45:49 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(I'm pessimystic.)
To: shibumi
Shake shake shake, shake shake shake, shake yer robooty.
Shake yer robooty!
[did NAMBLA fund this “project”?]
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posted on
07/17/2012 11:53:17 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(I'm pessimystic.)
To: Salamander
[did NAMBLA fund this project?]I figured it was Bawney Fwank.
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posted on
07/18/2012 12:10:56 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
That was emotion?
I feel nonplussed...
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posted on
07/18/2012 12:50:01 AM PDT
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama Kills))
To: Slings and Arrows
I’m glad we didn’t completely nuke Japan, because ALL of the world’s “weird” comes out of that place.
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posted on
07/18/2012 12:54:52 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Borg Zombies walk around groaning "Commmppuutteerrrrssss......Commmppuutteerrrrssss......")
To: Lazamataz
That might be thanks to nuking Japan.
To: Hardraade
What do you expect from an emotional tuchus?
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posted on
07/18/2012 1:28:05 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Lazamataz
California is but a distant second.
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posted on
07/18/2012 1:28:55 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Lazamataz; Slings and Arrows; Salamander
"Im glad we didnt completely nuke Japan, because ALL of the worlds weird comes out of that place."
Quod Erat Demonstrandum.
(Sal and S&A, You've seen this before, but it's starting to become a timeless classic.)
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posted on
07/18/2012 1:47:20 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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