Robotics

[Irving]

The bottom robot, Asimo, is Honda's robot.

[cstone]

But what kind of guns do robots like?

How do they shoot? Sub MOA?

Could I see one in a digi camo outfit?

[hollohas]

The second two dancing robots (without the fans) dance like me.

[Hoosier]

Here:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/02/r...european-frui/

H.

[hollohas]

Here:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/02/r...european-frui/

H.

That robot has a Microsoft Kinect sensor for a head...that thing is so new (only a few months) but must be some serious technology if it is being incorporated into robot designs that must have been being worked on for years.

Is the Kinect an important piece of the the beginning of Skynet?

Oh, and science fiction drives inventors. It's scary. If these RoboEarth guys say they didn't get this idea from Skynet then they are lying out their face.

[Byte Stryke]

we are doomed.

I just hope I'm still around when they're making realistic sex bots.

you will be, but you will be too old to enjoy it :P

That robot has a Microsoft Kinect sensor for a head...that thing is so new (only a few months) but must be some serious technology if it is being incorporated into robot designs that must have been being worked on for years.

Is the Kinect an important piece of the the beginning of Skynet?

Oh, and science fiction drives inventors. It's scary. If these RoboEarth guys say they didn't get this idea from Skynet then they are lying out their face.

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Skynet uses Windows XP SP3

[hollohas]

00:39
Skynet uses Windows XP SP3

If that's the case we shouldn't have to worry...until the robots make their own operating system.

[Hoosier]

Is the Kinect an important piece of the the beginning of Skynet?

Kinect is important because it's the first inexpensive easily hackable Structured Light 3d system. This video shows what the structured light it beams out looks like, if you could see in near-infrared (as opposed to thermal infrared)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlTf0yYQjSg

The camera on the device then measures the distance between all those dots, and is able to figure out how far away something is based on that distance. So it's getting the color of a dot, and how far away that dot is, for every dot in the row, and every row in the image. You can see in videos like this (or others from this guy) when he rotates around the camera, what you can reconstruct with the Kinect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QrnwoO1-8A

In the future, this will be joined together with LIDAR, RADAR, SONAR and all other sensing technologies to give computers a sense of their environment. The trick is less about collecting the data than it is in interpreting it. We animals are remarkably talented at interpreting the world through binocular stereo vision.

H.

[hollohas]

^^^Whoa. My mind does not comprehend that

What's the Star Trek thing called, the Halodeck? The room where they can project 3D space and interact? I bet that's not too far away...

[sniper7]

But what kind of guns do robots like?

How do they shoot? Sub MOA?

Could I see one in a digi camo outfit?

I bet they have ridiculously fast fingers. fuck full auto when your hand swivels faster than a guns cyclic rate!