chicagotribune.com— The movie "Wall-E," a futuristic tale of a trash-compacting robot, has become a money-making machine at the box office. Here are some key components of robotics:
Jul 5, 2008View in Crawl 4
Too bad robots suck just as much today as they did 15 years ago. The only high-quality, intelligent robot I've ever seen was Honda's Asimo. Animatronics, such as the ones at Disneyland, are fantastic though. It's just that autonomous robots have been very, very stupid thus far.
Yeah, I remember reading about the 'uncanny valley'. Apparently as things are predominantly non-humanlike but show characteristics that allow anthropomorphising we like them, but when they become mostly humanlike but with some non-human characteristics, then we see them as some sort of sub-human as opposed to the cuteness we associate with the former type. Interesting stuff.
dougvfr750Jul 5, 2008
That traffic robot would freak me out too. I'd probably run the control just to see what it would do.
halsfieldJul 6, 2008
glad im not the only person who thought that was stupid.
hoopy22Jul 6, 2008
No more lists!
cactus476Jul 6, 2008
'Robots' do not exist people... they are just complex machines programmed by us.
tweeJul 6, 2008
Too bad robots suck just as much today as they did 15 years ago. The only high-quality, intelligent robot I've ever seen was Honda's Asimo. Animatronics, such as the ones at Disneyland, are fantastic though. It's just that autonomous robots have been very, very stupid thus far.
sixorsopapersJul 6, 2008
His optical character recognition software seems to be incompatible with the brand of teleprompter he has been using.
diderottenJul 6, 2008
Depends on your definition. Wait... are you saying they should occur naturally?
praveenmarkanduJul 6, 2008
they take about:robots from different sourcesissac asimov and futurama being a few
arjieJul 6, 2008
Yeah, I remember reading about the 'uncanny valley'. Apparently as things are predominantly non-humanlike but show characteristics that allow anthropomorphising we like them, but when they become mostly humanlike but with some non-human characteristics, then we see them as some sort of sub-human as opposed to the cuteness we associate with the former type. Interesting stuff.
sonof8bitsJul 6, 2008
"cancerbot: spreading a political form of cancer all over the US"