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67 Pre-programmed instructions (Score:5, Funny)
by thedogcow (694111)
on Sunday September 19, @02:07AM (#10289297)
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Well that is cool, but no robots will need more than 640 pre-programmed instructions anyway.
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robosapien.tk (Score:5, Informative)
by jpmkm (160526)
on Sunday September 19, @02:09AM (#10289300)
(http://producedeath.com/)
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The best robosapien hacking site is robosapien.tk
[robosapien.tk]. I can't find my remote for my robosapien, so I've downloaded
a program for my girlfriend's palmpilot(my monochrome visor wouldn't run
the program) to control my robosapien. btw, looks like someone reads hardocp.
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Fight!! (Score:5, Funny)
by alatesystems (51331) <chrisNO@SPAMtalkingtoad.com>
on Sunday September 19, @02:09AM (#10289301)
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Qrio [plyojump.com] could totally that things windows-running ass.
It looks like Johnny 5, but a cool project none the less. Perhaps they could install Pocket Skype [skype.com] on the PPC and have the robot follow you around as a mobile speakerphone.
Chris
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- Re:Fight!! by vectra14 (Score:1) Sunday September 19, @05:14PM
- Who cares by commodoresloat (Score:3) Sunday September 19, @03:26AM
- Re:Fight!! by simcop2387 (Score:1) Sunday September 19, @04:23PM
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Mirror (Score:4, Informative)
by FiberOpPraise (607416)
on Sunday September 19, @02:11AM (#10289306)
(http://www.fibersnet.net/)
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I have a strong feeling this site is going to go down with the video files and a direct link to a file.
Here is a full mirror:
http://66.90.101.31/~whateve/mirror/slashdot/www.i nformatik.uni-freiburg.de/%257Enimbro/robots.html [66.90.101.31]
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as long as they don't turn evil (Score:2, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday September 19, @02:13AM (#10289314)
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Evil spider robots with fangs... they've got teeth! [goldenscore.free.fr]
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Be careful with these suckers (Score:5, Informative)
by mofochickamo (658514)
on Sunday September 19, @02:13AM (#10289318)
(http://sf.net/users/drichardson | Last Journal: Thursday July 24, @10:55AM)
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My boss got one of these about 3 months ago as a preview release from
a friend who is a distributor. Some of the pre-programmed motions were quite
funny (like the Neandertal roar for scaring small children). The robot also
has good walking ability and dexterity in general. Though be warned, it isn't made out of the highest quality components.
Much to the embaressment of my boss, the robot broke in his care. The head
got stuck to one side. My boss and I considered opening it up and hacking
it ourselves, but all we both had visions of giving the robot back to the
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Re:Be careful with these suckers (Score:4, Informative)
by Distan (122159)
on Sunday September 19, @03:48AM (#10289527)
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The "head stuck to one side" problem is common, and can be easily fixed. From the official FAQ:
Q: Robosapien’s head has turned to the right; I have not been able to re-center it. Do you have any suggestions for repair?
A: Lower his arms and twist his head all the way to the left, until you hear a "click".
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Freiburg not Freiberg (Score:5, Informative)
by frostman (302143) *
on Sunday September 19, @02:14AM (#10289320)
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In case anyone's curious, the name of the town is Freiburg not Freiberg.
But you probably figured that out from the URL, even if our noble editors did not.
Nice town, by the way.
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Tux (Score:1, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday September 19, @02:14AM (#10289322)
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So when do we get an autonomous tux?
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pretty decent dexterity (Score:1, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday September 19, @02:15AM (#10289324)
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Sure, but how are its other stats?
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Wow, that's messed up. (Score:3, Funny)
by MedHead (795006) <medhead@flagmandesign.com>
on Sunday September 19, @02:16AM (#10289329)
(http://www.dhpersonal.com/)
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Wow, 2XL [google.com] has been taking some steroids!
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hmmmm (Score:5, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday September 19, @02:20AM (#10289340)
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Robosapien
dexterity: 16
strength: 8 (very small)
constitution: varies on battery pack
charisma: 14 (drops to 12 after 2 months of gismo newness)
intelligence: varies with loaded program
wisdom: ditto
movement: 5
Hit points: 20
Attacks: swinging arm
Damage: 1d2 of temporary damage
My Dog
dexterity: 14
strength: 14
constitution: 16
charisma: 16 (drops to 14 after christmas)
intelligence: 10
wisdom: 6
movement: 14
Hitpoints: 30
attacks: vicious bite
Damage: 1d6 in initial bite, 1d4 of gnawing damage each round afterwards.
Robosapien: hundreds of dollars
Dog: free
Watching my dog steal your robosapien and destroy it in around 4 rounds with gnawing damage: priceless
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- d&d. mod parent up. by thedogcow (Score:1) Sunday September 19, @02:23AM
obligatory MTG reference (Score:4, Informative)
by servognome (738846)
on Sunday September 19, @03:21AM (#10289482)
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Card Name: Dog
Card Color: Green
Cash Cost: 0
Type & Class: Creature - Canine
Pow/Tough: 1/1
Card Text:
During your upkeep sacrifice 5 food or bury dog
When Dog comes into play, gain control of all children until end of turn.
Tap to destroy target permanent
Flavor Text:
Sit Ubu sit, good dog
Rarity: C
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Card Name: Robosapien
Card Color: A
Cash Cost: 95
Type & Class: Artifact - Creature
Pow/Tough: 0/1
Card Text:
Upon Summoning place 10 battery counters on Robosapien
Everytime Robosapien becomes tapped remove a battery counter
Tap to gain control of target creature
Flavor Text: I am Robosapien
Rarity: U
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- Re:obligatory MTG reference by Quobobo (Score:3) Sunday September 19, @06:08AM
Re:obligatory MTG reference (Score:5, Funny)
by NoMoreNicksLeft (516230) <john...oyler@@@comcast...net>
on Sunday September 19, @10:06AM (#10290348)
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Card Name: Slashdot Moderator
Card Color: Gold
Cash Cost: 0
Type & Class: Human Idiot
Pow/Tough: 0/1
Card Text:
When
Slashdot Moderator is summoned, destroy all jokes. For every round Slashdot
Moderator is in play, place a "-1, Troll" counter on all Smart, Clever, or
Interesting Posts. For every round Slashdot Moderator is in play, put a "+1
Insightful" counter on all Flamebait, Troll, or Stupid Posts. Sacrifice Slashdot
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Flavor Text: Fr1st Ps0t!
Rarity: R
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- Re:obligatory MTG reference by svallarian (Score:2) Monday September 20, @04:37PM
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- Re:hmmmm by Bloodlent (Score:2) Sunday September 19, @03:59AM
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An affirmation of C++'s flexibilty (Score:2, Interesting)
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday September 19, @02:23AM (#10289349)
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Though many still balk at the ease with which pointer manipulation is done through
the standard library, projects such as the RoboSapien demonstrate the need for
graceful performace over allocated expectations. Combining dual methodologies
through lowered overhead can, and may, allow for the artificial intelligence paradigm
many of use hope for.
CB [cowbiscuit.com]
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Robosapien in Servo Magazine (Score:5, Informative)
by Psion (2244)
on Sunday September 19, @02:24AM (#10289354)
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Servo Magazine had a feature last month on the Robosapien. Apparently,
the designer felt very strongly about letting users hack the device, so he
left plenty of space to add capabilities. The current issue of the magazine
has a hacking contest for the toy. See Hack-a-Sapien contest. [servomagazine.com]
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- Re:Robosapien in Servo Magazine by servognome (Score:2) Sunday September 19, @03:24AM
Re:Robosapien in Servo Magazine (Score:5, Interesting)
by jim_deane (63059)
on Sunday September 19, @03:30AM (#10289498)
(Last Journal: Tuesday February 10, @04:12PM)
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That would be Mark Tilden. He is primarily responsible for the BEAM [lanl.gov] (current site here) robots [solarbotics.com], lots of which are based on the bicore circuit and other novel simple circuits [beam-online.com](read at the sites!).
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than a top-down method of robot design, where you take a brain and make it
do cool things, his idea is to decide some basic function you want to accomplish--like
walking--and design the simplest circuit that is able to do that. Then pick
a new function (say, seeking light) and build that circuit. Hook the two
together, and now you have a walking robot that seeks light. It is a more
biological method to robot evolution.
If you like the idea of making
a functioning insect-robot out of the parts from an old Walkman cassette
player and a pocket calculator, you'll love BEAM robotics.
Jim
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Biomorphic robot indeed! (Score:4, Funny)
by ManyLostPackets (646646)
on Sunday September 19, @02:30AM (#10289367)
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BioMorphic robot indeed! [planet.nl] DO NOT go in there!!
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Re:Biomorphic robot indeed! (Score:4, Informative)
by ctr2sprt (574731)
on Sunday September 19, @02:58AM (#10289437)
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For those who're concerned, the parent is a movie of a robosapien with
toilet paper around its head flapping uselessly in a bathroom.
I was a little worried myself, but I have mod points so I figured I'd do my civic duty and make sure it was safe.
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It's not for normal people! (Score:3, Funny)
by tftp (111690)
on Sunday September 19, @02:36AM (#10289389)
(http://www.lib.ru/)
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I checked out the manual, and the remote controller for the robot is
probably more complex and has more keys than the one in Heavy Gear II. Note: HG2 uses all the keys on your keyboard, and then some :-)
Also, a bunch of D-size batteries is not enough for any serious use.
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Quickly! (Score:4, Funny)
by BitwizeGHC (145393)
on Sunday September 19, @02:43AM (#10289404)
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How many of you saw this thing and immediately thought of MEGAS XLR?
*raises hand*
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- Re:Quickly! by WhatAmIDoingHere (Score:2) Sunday September 19, @10:22PM
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Mod article as unfair! (Score:3, Funny)
by koi88 (640490)
on Sunday September 19, @03:16AM (#10289474)
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"I, for one, welcome..."
You deliberately limit the possibility of a funny-moderated comment.
Now I want to have a Beowolf cluster of these...
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It's Freiburg not Freiberg (Score:3, Informative)
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday September 19, @03:33AM (#10289503)
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Burg = Castle, Berg = Mountain... ...
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Mark Tilden (Score:5, Informative)
by Smerity (714804)
on Sunday September 19, @05:35AM (#10289770)
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Mark
Tilden, the designer of Robosapien (and of BEAM robotics for any of you who
have heard of it) purposely left the Robosapien open for modification (god
bless his soul ^_^) More people/companies should do this! =) I'm actually quite interested in this, as I'm in the Australian
Robocup Junior atm (Year 9) and this is a great platform to begin experimenting
in bipedal robots. Heck, it could even begin it's own competition section
(the robotic AIBO dogs have their own soccer competition)
Mark Tilden is also heavy researcher in the
biomorphic robotics [wikipedia.org] field, and through his experiments he has essentially created the BEAM robotics field.
If you haven't ever looked at BEAM robots, DO! They're can be amazingly simple (start here [solarbotics.net]) and can then lead up to quite advanced and fun projects in robotics! And did I mention they're cheap =)
Solarbotics [solarbotics.net], one of the best resources for BEAM robots I know of
Robocup Official Website [robocup.org]
Mark Tilden at WIKI [wikipedia.org]
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maybe if.... (Score:3, Funny)
by rubberbando (784342)
on Sunday September 19, @05:40AM (#10289782)
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maybe if you crossed it with a RealDoll [realdoll.com], you might be onto something. ;-)
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Why did they choose that name? (Score:4, Funny)
by dat00ket (249468)
on Sunday September 19, @07:12AM (#10289933)
(http://www.ninelineman.com/)
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Why did they choose the name Robo Sapien? It's not really a thinking
robot, just one that kinda looks human. It would make more sense if they
had gone with HomoRo..
oh..
right..
never mind.
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Where does this end? (Score:3, Insightful)
by museumpeace (735109)
on Sunday September 19, @08:30AM (#10290053)
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Eventually, a Linux-brained robot. Or maybe some open sourced flavor
of VxWorks. Eventually its got a gas engine and 2 or 3 horse power driving
hydraulic actuators. Strong enough to be lightly armored and do serious
damage with its weight alone. It'll have a published standard sensor bus
that enables dozens of open source daemons giving it such capabilities as
a better sense of balance and maybe a RFID-based or face recognition software
to give it a sense of friend/foe. I could program it to walk down to the
gas station and use my credit card when it was hungry. It will be strong
enough that I can program it to stack my fire wood and threaten the neighbors
stupid dog. For that much utility, I would pay the ten or fifty thousand
dollars that it might cost. Etc Etc. The question is, when does it cease
to be a toy...
AT WHAT POINT DO I NEED A LICENSE TO
OPERATE A ROBOT? When its capable of misuse?
When its capable of harming other people?
[Note Linux brain : I DO NOT need a license to
turn it on or to program it ... ever!]
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Dear God No. Dear Jesus No. (Score:5, Funny)
by Gannoc (210256)
on Sunday September 19, @08:52AM (#10290100)
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But the folks at The University of Freiberg have made the RoboSapien autonomous by installing a Pocket PC to its head.
I think we of the slashdot community know these three indisputable facts:
Microsoft is evil.
Microsoft has a plan to "Put Windows on Every Desktop"
Microsoft will crush other companies and break laws to attain its goals.
And now they've put Microsoft into a robot? Gentlemen. I think we all know what this means:
Evil Robots
Evil Robots that want to take over the world.
Evil Robots that want to take over the world... BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
Oppenheimer,
upon seeing the world's first atomic explosion, quoted: "I'm sure at the
end of the world... the last man will see something very familar to what
we've seen today."
We know now he is wrong. The last thing that the
last man will see, will be an evil robot's arm, raised above its head in
triumph. I imagine it will be something like the basement scene in the movie
"Signs", except the robot will be able to tear apart the wooden door like
paper, and Mel Gibson will never find his faith again,
I'm heading
down to my bomb shelter now with my family to try and ride this out. I leave
you with mankind's one hope: They're using PocketPCs. This means that while
they may be DESIGNED for a continuous rampage, we all know that after about
90 minutes of practical use, they'll need to head back to their cradles for
a 3 hour recharge.
I beg you, find those cradles and destroy them!
God bless and good luck.
This is slashdot 210256, signing off.
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Gives a whole new meaning (Score:3, Funny)
by overshoot (39700)
on Sunday September 19, @09:00AM (#10290116)
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to "blue screen of death."
Or was that "blue scream of death?"
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Read it as "putting a PocketPC..." (Score:3, Funny)
by drinkypoo (153816) <martin.espinoza@gmail.com>
on Sunday September 19, @10:44AM (#10290555)
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Made sense to me. When you put a gun to someone's head you're threatening
to put a bullet in them, right? If you put a PocketPC to a robot's head,
your'e threatening to install WinCE on them... That would sure as hell make
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with familiar on my iPAQ i can have X on my robot (Score:1)
by quark Monkey (814814)
on Sunday September 19, @01:44PM (#10291422)
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sweet
this could be cool ive been mucking about with linux on my ipaq [handhelds.org]
i could use bluetooth/11b for comms
and expose it to the world :)
would you like to SSH to my roboto.
no time for love Dr jones, got me a domestic to build :)
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Not nearly as cool as this robotic maid (Score:2)
by geekoid (135745) <<dadinportland> <at> <yahoo.com>>
on Sunday September 19, @04:14PM (#10292224)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Thursday February 21, @05:37PM)
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RoboMaid [asseenontvnetwork.com]
How can you beat that!
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Re:make it more human like (Score:2)
by Lispy (136512)
on Sunday September 19, @05:31AM (#10289759)
(http://www.blissx.co.uk/)
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You obvioulsy don t get it. The whole point of the Realdoll was to seperate a woman from her mind. ;-)
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Re:r u teh serious? (Score:2)
by EddWo (180780) <.eddwo. .at. .hotpop.com.>
on Sunday September 19, @10:30AM (#10290484)
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I think you got the wrong story.
This is Hacking the RoboSapien [slashdot.org]
You wanted Deaf Children Invent Language [slashdot.org]
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