Researchers create life-saving uBOT-5 robot, play dress-up with it
By Donald Melanson 
posted April 17th 2008 3:36PM
posted April 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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"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!!