Robots

swears

preppy-kei
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

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

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Dusty

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

 

sufi

lala
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

lala
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more robots than porno!!
 

4linehaiku

Repetitive
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:
 

muser

Well-known member

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

constant escape

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