Researchers create life-saving uBOT-5 robot, play dress-up with it
By Donald Melanson 
posted Apr 17th 2008 3:36PM
posted Apr 17th 2008 3:36PM
We could go on about the uBOT-5's ability to detect when a person has fallen down, check their vital signs, and dial 911 -- but, seriously, is there anything we can possibly add to that picture?
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That's just too freaky looking!
Ex-term-in-ate, EXTERMINATE!!!
It has the hands of the little boxing Nuns puppets.
(reference the movie Big where tom hanks punches himself in the face with it)
haha - so tempting to push that thing over
That guy must've been given a horrible time back in school.
I hope intelligent robots are less nerdy than that when they arrive, or we could see a lot of robot bullying and suicides in the future!
At least he's not using one of those body-laptop interfaces.
Looks like a Rock `Em, Sock `Em Robot is still punching Grandma even when she's down...
Rock'em Sock'em 2.0?
I'd say more of a boxing nun.
Wow! Punch and Judy goes 21st century!
puddle of urine, a funny hat, kittens, ms paint semen stains... I can think of plenty of things you can add to that picture
I was a minute too late. I'll live. Not sure about Grandma..thank God the robot is there to help her.
Help her my ass, that thing is trying to steal her medicine for fuel!!!! I hope she has Old Glory robot insurance....
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1435090770451224720
this looks like the robot in the new MGS
SuperPoke!
"Legs are just for decoration, that's what people high up don't understand."
Segway doc rob?
Possible captions:
"Why, mommy!? Why didn't you give me hands!?"
-or-
"Dammit, bitch! I told you - 10W30!"
Rock'em Sock'em Robots turn on their old lady masters!
Straight outta Gilliam's "Brazil"
And four comments down, there's a picture of him!
Were the engineers on thalidomide?
Good thing the camera is properly calibrated. That old lady would be in for an unwelcomed surprise!
Tsk tsk tsk, engadget needs to work on their proofreading:
"is there anything can we possibly add to that picture?"
Grandma didn't fare so well in the shot drinking contest, eh?
BODY BLOW! BODY BLOW!
How about replacing the on-screen head with Holly from Red Dwarf? But seriously, a face on a screen?!
Is it me or is it reaching for that person's wallet?
I was thinking more of reassuring embrace but now that you mention it...
Bender V.3.0 stealing-wallet chip enhanced
so _that's_ who's been stealing kidneys from unsuspecting tourists....
"uBOT-5 is alive, need more input"
is that a shiny metallic terminator skull on the top of that disturbing face-video screen?
much worse
its robocop 2 all over again
April 17th, 2008. Mark this date and remember it well (and trust me, you *will*).
SkyPron has become sentinent. And by the looks of it, about to commence with the first anal probe to study our defects.
Energiz... er, Enemizer Bunny™
MILF pr0n from the year 2112.
apparently the ILF part holds no meaning in 2112
Gotta, um, 'hand' it to ya...thou art a master of dark humor!
"I can has cheezburger?"
or
"Mah new job. Not so grate akshully."
or even
"Oh hai."
Finish her!
...FATALITY!
I saw something like this on ER.
http://www-robotics.cs.umass.edu/Robots/UBot-5
Here, you can find really good information about this marvel
Good find. Scroll down at the link for videos. They're making new hand tools for it too. One is "supposedly" for the benign task of throwing a baseball, but it looks like it could probably disembowel you too...
looks like robo-hero is equipped with the Quickcam Orbit webcam.
i thought that was a miniature terminator head. ah well, one can dream...
but what happens when 911-dialer-robot falls over and can't get up? WHAT THEN?!
add some wheel wells that look like tiny pants.
tiny pants = +1
I think the picture could be amended with large letters reading:
FAIL
Dextre The Not So Magnificent
"DISABLE PROSTATE MODE!!! - I"M HAVING A HEART ATTACK YOU STUPID BOT!!!"
Is that arm :
A: taizing her.
B: milking her...
C: making sure shes dead
D: preventing her from rolling over so she can get up
E: injecting nanobots into her whilst she sleeps
F: skaring the crap out of everyone in the room , whilst doing all of the above.
Either D or checking heartbeat.
The left arm looks like a club !
ok , I guess if it has called 911, then it would be bad for the share price if she was alright. so the left arm soft rubber clubbing device is there to make sure she doesn't get up after the call has been made.Its a "stay down" device.
I BEAT JOE FRASIER!
Ears for the stethoscope.
What I'm curious about is what is that dumb robot trying to listen to? her kidneys?
That's why you're not a doctor, webon.
those ball-hands must be really useful.
*nudge* ma'am. are you alright?
*nudge* hrm...
*nudge*
Oh lolololololoolololol...+1
Stop poking me! I'm trying to sleep!
if everyting (excluding the bottom) is life-sized, then why isn't the head? it just makes it look wierd.
I hope it doesn't play doom
Is that the guy from Fine Young Cannibals on the screen??
No, its Ronaldinho de soccer player
This picture is screamin, crying for a caption contest!
Help! I've fallen and a damn robot is poking me!
I can only imagine how much this would piss off her cat.
looks like it's wearing it's shirt backwards..
really though, wouldn't it make more sense just to have a wrist monitor with an accelerometer and a GSM chip? I guess maybe if had a defibrillator on it, but then it could spell an even worse problem for the cat.
Yeah it's not like we can get real people to actually help with or even visit old people.
She's fallen...and she can't........ forget it
So how can he dial 911 without hands? Ha, just kidding! It's the guy on the monitor who does the dialling, right? ;-)
Why the flower does a robot need a stethoscope? It should have a mike embedded directly in its hand to get a better reading I mean seriously it just don't make sense to me.
"quick uBOT-5! Call 911 I've fallen on some urine on the floor! yes the telephone! C-A-L-L 9-1-1!!!!! EAT UP MARTHA?!?!?!?! 9-1-1!!! NO!!! DON'T COME CLOSER!! YOU ARE GOING TO ELECTROCU..AAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Help, I've fallen and I can't get up!"
Grandma: Spongebob Squarepants 3000, just a little to the left, up, up - ahhh, thank you. Grandpa could never find that spot...
Mother? Mother?! What's wrong, mother?
"If I only had a heart...."
"she's dead, Jim."
This robot was foreseen in "Ice Pirates" almost 20 years ago. "Hey blood, this be my BAD chariot!"
Yea, trust my life to a robot, ok, but will it love me, will you robot, will you love me forever!
Die, filthy human DIE!!