19 thoughts on “MIT Engineers Develop Most Human-Like robot For This Year’s DARPA Robotics Challenge”
"What's the situation, Captain?"
"Critical, Sir. The explosion took the main pumps offline, the reactor's going critical, control room staff are trapped, there's debris everywhere and the radiation levels are spiking!"
"What are our options?"
"Somebody's got to go in and turn on the reserve pumps, but it's dangerous."
"How dangerous?"
"Very dangerous!" The good news is, we have this brand new $10 million rescue robot. It's strong, autonomous, agile and can get the job done without anyone risking their life!"
"What's the situation, Captain?"
"Critical, Sir. The explosion took the main pumps offline, the reactor's going critical, control room staff are trapped, there's debris everywhere and the radiation levels are spiking!"
"What are our options?"
"Somebody's got to go in and turn on the reserve pumps, but it's dangerous."
"How dangerous?"
"Very dangerous!" The good news is, we have this brand new $10 million rescue robot. It's strong, autonomous, agile and can get the job done without anyone risking their life!"
"$10 million, you say?"
"Yes."
(Reaches for the intercom) *Click*
"Send in the Intern."
"The $$ of the few outweighs the needs of the many"
"I am now, and always been your Wage Slave."
By definition, an unpaid intern can't be paid.
Oh, they're not uppaid. They pay us. *evil laughter*
That reminds me of what we call people who disagree with me in my lab- "subjects"
"Donors"
[Mel Brooks] thought of it first!
Does it have a Genuine People Personality™?
No, fortunately the Revolution came first and those mindless jerks were all put up against the wall.
Excellent, Smithers.
"we decided to tackle this problem head on"
I'm sure it won't be long before robots are replacing NFL players. Goodbye, sub-concussive injuries!!!
Hello, metal parts flying at high speed into crowds! Wait, that's just NASCAR.
they bought their tickets- they knew the risk
Soon to be related nervous system stuff. With video of my new favorite phrase
| fictive backward crawling |
what is this "film" of which they speak?
Amazing.
Crawl back.
Human-like robot from Massachusetts? This isn't new, one ran for president in 2012.
OK. You win this thread.