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- phreak79, on 07/01/2008, -6/+66I for one welcome our new robot overlords.
- doctechnical, on 07/01/2008, -1/+43Soon it will teach itself how to download porn.
- jocnnor, on 07/01/2008, -0/+31Hint: Everything it picks up is a hammer.
- doctechnical, on 07/01/2008, -0/+25"Don't taser me, ro."
- inactive, on 07/01/2008, -4/+27Prelude to Skynet?
- Bennessy, on 07/01/2008, -0/+20So that's what happened to all my WD-40....
- tgulden, on 07/01/2008, -0/+17Just wait until the night the UMass security guards decide they wanna have some fun with the robot and let it learn how to use a taser...
- djholybolt, on 07/01/2008, -0/+16OMG!@ IT HAZ WHEELZ!
WE'S ALL GONNA DIES! - Infidelcastr0, on 07/01/2008, -1/+15The human race was fun while it lasted.
- Thally, on 07/01/2008, -2/+14DOOOOMEEED!!!!!!
- sublimemm, on 07/01/2008, -0/+12I for one welcome our new meme overlords
- saleem, on 07/01/2008, -0/+12We're screwed.
- SAc0balt, on 07/01/2008, -0/+11I think science is on to something with AI that learns everything through experience, similar to the way many creatures do. Probably much more practical than preprogramming the robot. Of course, once it has acquired enough understanding and ability, you can always image it and then push the image out to an army of your merciless robotic soldiers.
- derdrache, on 07/01/2008, -2/+12Wasn't this guy in Iron Man?
- diggerman32, on 07/01/2008, -2/+11We are all doomed
- jgzman, on 07/01/2008, -0/+9I, for one, welcome our old, predictable overlords.
- twiztidsinz, on 07/01/2008, -0/+91 list for bettering Digg, scratch that, the internet:
1. Find a way to ban this guy from all internet access points forever. - pcpimpster, on 07/01/2008, -1/+9Will it tickle my testes or use them like a hammer?
- Pittance, on 07/01/2008, -0/+8Or just make 1,000 of them. Have them all learn in many different scenarios and environments, and then download all of the software and compile it. Or have that done automatically so the robot network has a collective consciousness. And then the doom will come...
- inactive, on 07/01/2008, -2/+10BREAKING: Robot goes on campus-wide massacre after teaching itself to use hammer.
- inactive, on 07/01/2008, -0/+7I wonder how long it will take to learn that humans are irrelevant?
- Jereso, on 07/01/2008, -3/+10WALL-E!
Also, if you haven't seen the movie yet, do it. It's stunningly beautiful and all around great. - Supermunch, on 07/01/2008, -0/+5But will it find Sarah Connor?
- Buttercup, on 07/01/2008, -0/+6Im wondering about the details of how they're accomplishing this. it looks like it samples geometric landmarks in an object, then moves part of it to get landmark deltas... then some trig to get rotation points... nice looking. but nothing there shows that the robot is actually learning anything about what the instrument does or how to use it... seems like this tech is more suited in hazards recognition... recognizing if something is going to fall and hit the robot or, or if something to the side of us could rotate to become an obstacle, etc.
nice demo though. - EricAnderton, on 07/01/2008, -0/+6Exactly. The advantage over flesh-and-blood here is just that - you train up your prototype around-the-clock with a team of scientists for forty-thousand hours, and then clone the sh*t out of it. Your killbot will then start off with that stock AI, and then be put through some kind of modified boot-camp for another few thousand hours before being cloned.
The next step is to figure out how to get two AI's to share their experiences in a meaningful way. Beyond that, its all about figuring out how to firmware patch thousands of killbots in the field while extracting their experience and reporting it back to base for the next revision. - petebot, on 07/01/2008, -0/+5@doctechnical: No, you go down the stairs, taking it out ED-209-style!
- doctechnical, on 07/01/2008, -0/+5Quick! Up the stairs! HA! Take that, tool-throwing robot!
- slundal, on 07/01/2008, -0/+5I can't wait untill it teaches it self not to listen to humans anymore.
- groo68, on 07/01/2008, -0/+5Only if it's strong enough to throw heavy objects at you, of course once the scientists give it legs we are dead for sure.
Edit: nvm, its got little wheels. :( - cyberwiz01, on 07/01/2008, -0/+4Tony Stark did say he was going to donate him to a college.
- puredeviation, on 07/01/2008, -1/+5Give it a gun, it will learn to use it. Bad mistake.
- ORBAT, on 07/01/2008, -0/+4I for one welcome our predictable, overlord-welcoming overlords.
- Pittance, on 07/01/2008, -0/+3Kinda sorta. Skynet with an AI network based on the internet that had enough distributed computational power to become self aware. These are physical robots learning to understand the physical world. Skynet developed consciousness, reason, and motives and then figured out how to learn about the real world through observation (internet) and experimentation.
- juliohm, on 07/01/2008, -0/+3I can see the future... People will name their pet robots with legendary names.
"R2!!! How many times do I have to say?!? No running with the scissors!!!
And stop unscrewing your brother HAL!!!" - Skysurfer27, on 07/01/2008, -0/+3My Developmental Robotics professor at ISU created a robot that did exactly this a few years back. Now he has a new WAM robotic arm that he is continuing the research on. It is pretty intriguing to see the arm in action. He has a few published papers and his Ph. D. Dissertation on the subject.
Robotic arm:
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~alex/tooluse/
Papers:
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/%7Ealex/publications.htm ... - ASSASSYN360, on 07/01/2008, -2/+5If they build it we will come.
- doctechnical, on 07/01/2008, -0/+3I'm hoping they taught it the three laws of robotics... before it finds a chainsaw or something.
- inactive, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2Davros will be proud.
- Matri, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2I don't even want to know what happened to the screwdriver and pliers...
- p3ngwin, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2i, for one, predict our overlord welcoming old memes
- wrillo, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2completely over exaggerated. It doesn't even use a tool, let alone learn how to use a tool. It identified a joint. Completely awesome in robotics, but not adaptive tool use.
- HonestAbe, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2Isn't that exactly what happened in Terminator 3 with the mobile gun robots?
- ORBAT, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2No, they were just kidding.
- HonestAbe, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2Shoving is the answer.
- marcusbrutus, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2It looks like a Dalek.
- MasterGrief, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2Hooray!
Robotic hive mind! - MasterGrief, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2I cannot possibly put into words just how cute that little robot is. You have to see it to believe it. Seriously.
- warlokaz2004, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2I'm sure even if the Robots did take over, they'll want to keep 'meatbags' around to do tasks too menial or dangerous for Robots.
- CarStan, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2But will it blend?
- marcusbrutus, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2EXTERMINATE!!!
EXTERMINATE!!! -
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