Robots

[swears]

I reckon SETI hasn't found any extra-terrestrial civilisations yet because eventually they invent something like this and all get eaten or turned into "grey goo". Whoops!

 

[muser]

this thing is insane, no remote control whatsoever except for the co-ordinates it needs to get to.

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[Sick Boy]

Holy fuck.

 

[mistersloane]

I really want to have sex with it. That's wrong, isn't it?

 

[Dusty]

If you wanted sex with bigdog because of that video, this one will push you over the edge.

 

[sufi]

nice thoughtful piece on robots in latest granta by steven hall, (not online obv :slanted
er sorry to raise the tone a little there i only read the 1st 1/2 & he probably gets onto robobestialism later on...

 

[sufi]

more robots than porno!!

 

[4linehaiku]

My flatmate just got a job designing the control architecture for an autonomous blimp. It's about a meter long, has a camera on it and it flys around and finds things for you. Or at least it will. It's a pretty sick job.

Personally I think his number 1 priority should be recreating this:

 

[droid]

Life-sized Gundam statue in Tokyo is alive

 

[muser]

I love the fact that someone probably spent days maybe weeks programming a robot to do pressups. Still pretty

 

[Leo]

boogie down robotics

 

[constant escape]

Excellent videos

 

[Leo]

not CGI, either.

 

[version]

Excellent videos

Crazy to finally see what you look like.

 

[constant escape]

There's the proof, the hope that I may too learn to dance.

 

[constant escape]

The precise tensions and torsions to be executed.

 

[constant escape]

The convergence of the algorithmic with the ludic.

 

[version]

 

[constant escape]

Not as good. One plus side to the sheer exhaustiveness of programming the groove is that the clout is unshakable, fixed.

 

[version]

Did you ever see the clip of Steven Pinker dancing?