Putin. Ok, actually another stoic, semi-autonomous critter is the winner of Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) 2007 Robot of the Year award. The grand prize goes to the work-horse, industrial robot from Fanuc Ltd. called M-430iA. The multi-axis, greaseless (read: sanitary) robot is part of a food and pharmaceutical handling system. Unlike your unemployed uncle with his GED, this bot can work non-stop, 24 hours a day, accurately picking up 120 items per minute as they roll down a conveyor belt. Other winners are the
dancing Miuro in the small- to medium-sized venture category and Matsushita's blood-toting
HOSPI bot. The latter apparently winning due to its unique position to assimilate the human race. Hey, anyone else smell polonium?
posted Dec 20th 2007 5:27AM
My dad runs an industrial automation firm and I see these babies on a daily basis. Seeing them sorting and picking at full speed (or even at 50%) is amazing.
Imagine building a super sized humanoid robot and adding a piar of these suckers for arms! It could pick up and squish 120 human meatbags per minute!!
Glorious!
humans are extinct.
I for one welcome our award winning semi-autonomous robotic overlords...
couldn't stop that impulse, did you?
who could ?? :D
come with me, if you want to live
Bender was robbed!
Hey, did you steal that Putin joke from Crazy Apple Rumors Site!?
Are sex toys considered for this Robot of the Year Award? Because they've been around forever and they do their job well (i hear). I think they deserve some awards.
I'd like to see this robot try to pleasure itself in the middle of the day at the public library like my unemployed uncle...
Bah. You had to pick on people with GEDs :(. Hey, well I work as a machinist now...... and I'm happy making 15 dollars an hour... bah who am i kidding I want to be a robot arm !!!
"Unlike your unemployed uncle with his GED, this bot can work non-stop, 24 hours a day, accurately picking up 120 items per minute as they roll down a conveyor belt."
Take that, working man! haha