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Next they will merge that with the realistic silicone love dolls…
Still very cool!
Cheers
Don’t you think that with moves like that it could WASH DISHES! Why is it wasting it’s time dancing?
When it can mow the lawn and take out the garbage call me.
So then I won’t feel any guilt about making it clean and fetch stuff from the kitchen.
I wonder what would be the Carbon footprint of a domestic robot if they ever get to make them similar to those from the ‘I Robot’ movie (which by the way, represents a complete rape of Asimov’s robot stories).
If you guys get the chance, try to seen the rant from Kevin Smith about the ‘I Robot’ movie on the ‘Evening Harder’ DVD. He makes an analogy of the movie related to oral sex, which is quite funny.
Cool.. Now we need to program them with mixed martial arts movements and create a new version of battle bots.
Copyright by Raff 2007
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto,
Mata ah-oo hima de
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto,
Himitsu wo shiri tai
Drunken, recently divorced, washed up, prejudiced cop somehow gets put in charge of investigating the ‘people’ he despises the most and finds out they actually aren’t all that bad and becomes their champion.
Yup, that’s the synopsis of I, Robot the movie – and a thousand other crappy flicks too.
Going to see alot of these dancing when WWIII starts.
Danger! Overly white! Keep away from dance floor!
I just saw the I Robot movie and enjoyed it but I didn’t expect much.Hollywood has a long history of screwing up great science fiction.I think Rod Serling with Pixars help would have done a better job.
#9 wwIII has started already…
What’s with the iRobot movie… The robots were cool, and that Audi vehicle was awesome. Other than that the film is just entertainment. And that’s fine. If you want to ponder about the philosophical implications of the arousal of other consciences other than human, please read the book. Really read it. I’m appalled that people read so little. Almost all of Asimov’s books are good reading and raise some issues too. All that can’t be gathered on a hour and a half of images. Reading a book is the perfect pace to think of what you read, go back read again, close the book, think some more…
I never equate movies and books. They have different rhythms.
#12…..JoaoPT….God, yes….love his books. Movies are never as *good* as the book. I have a friend that just refuses to see certain movies that were good books first…..says he never wants to lose the images he got from the books.
On a totally different subject, I’m thinking SciFi writers have the most fantastic masterpieces in XX century writing. Asimov, K.Dick, Heinlein…
All beget crappy (and some pearls too: Blade Runner, Scanner Darkly…) movies.
14.
Too Bad those guys never really obtained the respect that they deserve in the literary world. All to often Sci-Fi novelists are pretty much tossed to the side, and thier work (despite being read by MILLIONS of people, and spawning tons of movies) is mostly percieved as entertainment that is only good for adolecent males.
Yeah, but can it change into a Camaro?
Teach a robot to weld, it has a job for the duration of the contract.
Teach a robot to dance, it has a cultured skill that will last a lifetime.
Dancing robots. Great, is this some feeble marketing attempt to get people to ‘accept’ or ‘like’ them? All the points were made above, please forward them to the appropriate people at the company (invariably Japanese) that is making these dance-bots.
Here’s what I desire in a bot (or a wife):
1) Take out trash
2) Wash dishes
3) Change the oil on the car
4) Fetch me a cold beer
5) Pick up the groceries or dry cleaning
6) Walk the dog
7) Mow and trim the yard
8) Sort and wash laundry
9) Clean the house
Most of these are programmable, rather easy chores, with simple rules around them. As opposed to dancing – dancing?!?! What, is that supposed to impress me? No, it’s supposed to impress other robot-geeks… sort of like graffiti impressing other people who “understand” graffiti, but nobody else gives a rip. Sure, there’s timing and balance and all that — but, how big is the market for dancing robots, as opposed to the desire for a housework-bot? That whole Roomba thing – just a fad, a phase…