Damn Hipsters......
09-17-06 | 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by evanyc
this is an interesting video. why not just post it instead of making some stupid, far beyond played out hipster joke?
09-17-06 | 05:46 PM
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Originally Posted by circlecity
09-17-06 | 06:36 PM
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Originally Posted by MarkWW
i wonder if the robot can only turn right. It's all it does in the video. But if that could turn left, it'd make for some pretty interesting robot keirin.
09-17-06 | 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by circlecity
09-18-06 | 05:04 AM
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Please inform me when the Japanese have caught up to German robots, such as these: amazing German robots.
The fact that you got such a response from tacking on "hipster" to that video is actually pretty damn funny though.
The fact that you got such a response from tacking on "hipster" to that video is actually pretty damn funny though.
09-18-06 | 06:02 AM
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Originally Posted by OrgFarmCY
You sir are obviously not a golfer.
Originally Posted by OrgFarmCY
A trend in modern robotics for the past several years has been "human replication". Make your robot as human-like as possible. Toyota had a robot that could climb a set of stairs, another japanese company has a robotic information agent in it's headquaters. These robot's were both very, very human, when they could have been a pair of legs with couterbalance, or a speaker and a PC.
Originally Posted by OrgFarmCY
Now on the "********-ness" of the robot, it's up for debate. If that robot is programmed with a specific route in mind, well then yes, it's kind of ********. Have motors on the hip-joints and timed movements for the arms. Ta-Da!
Originally Posted by OrgFarmCY
If however, that robot is equiped with a neural net and can sense on-coming objects and avoid them, that robot my friend... if freaking awesome.
Originally Posted by OrgFarmCY
ps: Something in it's chest is oscillating. Anyone know what it is?
09-18-06 | 06:08 AM
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Originally Posted by the pope
What's the deal? Bricks in the bag or what. She was going pretty fast to just fall over.
