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May 05, 2004 23:51


Janeane Garofalo nailed it on the head recently on the Daily Show: "The country is so divided right now, I'm beginning to think that voting Republican is a character flaw."

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sarapada May 6 2004, 06:06:03 UTC
Dancing robots?!? Are you kidding me?! That is so cool.

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happyghost May 7 2004, 03:15:47 UTC
:) My thoughts precisely. I'll see what I can work out in the way of pictures.

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blazepoet May 6 2004, 13:20:01 UTC
One of my professors was the acting chair for the international robotics coference they had last week down in New Orleans, he brought back a DVD showing some of the better results people have.

Automonmous independent thinking robots, they have one human size walker, and a robot that can withstand 100g of force... very scary stuff.

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happyghost May 7 2004, 03:17:32 UTC
Autonomous independent thinking robots? Like, "passes a Turing test" thinking or "bake a souffle" thinking? Hmmm. I'll have to check that one out.

And isn't Honda's Asimo considered a human size walker?

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