Tmsuk demonstrates remotely controlled shopping robot
By Darren Murph 
posted Jul 11th 2008 12:26PM
posted Jul 11th 2008 12:26PM
[Via Pink Tentacle]
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Can it buy me a 3g iPhone?
This would be 100x more useful (just kidding 100x0 is 0) if it could go in place of you when your girlfriend drags you to 2 (7) stores.
Do I have to rent a robot to allow me to go out to buy this robot?
THUMBSUCK?
If only there was a way to shop for things on the internet.....
...and have those things you bought delivered right to your doorstep or even *gasp* to the doorstep of someone you know or love.
I cease to stop laughing at your robot witt Engadget. It doesn't get old.
...Controlled by elderly lady?...
She might have had a degree in computer science back in 50th...
The humanoid is
Rosey the Robot 1.0!!
Sounds like a much safer way to shoplift.
Elderly ladies already get away with it, the robot is a useless device to them.
Somewhere, Winona Ryder is rejoicing.
But can it run Crysis?
It can run over your fucking face.
No, BUT give it an HL2 anti-gravity gun and I bet you'll run in crisis
...hopefully there is a "atuo-shutdown" feature if it tries to go into the bathroom...just imagine the pervs
Call me sick, but I enjoy being watched at the urinal by an elderly lady through her advanced, cell-phone-controlled shopbot.
...What?
It's powered by NTT DoCoMo. (Softbank's competitors) I doubt you'll get any info on iPhone.
This lady is just simply a gimmick to create a diversion from the iPhone!
Man, a ROBOT that does your shopping while you are at home? I bet that would have blown peoples' minds... in the 1950s.
Hence, the demographic.
cunning. just cunning.
i could have used it to wait in line outside the cube last night...
Sarcasm aside.. It's less about the practicality and more about the process. It's pretty mind blowing that a cell phone can control a robot from miles away.
Yes, but think about those instances in which you're having this robot ascend the escalator in Macy's and you suddenly get a phone call. The bot stops at the top and the entire escalator becomes mexi-packed with other customers who are being force-fed up the robots ass.
"Destination arriving in the hat department, to weigh the grandson of a woman in the hat to show被"
Maybe someone could invent a better translator! That would actually be useful.
Japan is sealing its own doom.
The Robotaclypse is nigh.
"was actually being controlled by an elderly lady in her home"
Unfortunately for the shoppers behind the robot, the left turn signal had been left on the entire time.
How much is the optional Mrs. Butterworth's costume for it?
I for one welcome our proxy-shopping robot dictators.
There's this article about Robot Personalities: http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=526&doc_id=155718&f_src=flffour ... Maybe the robot will think that you wouldn't look good wearing what you decided to buy and act against it! LOL
TMSUK04? What happened to TMSUK01 - 03?
Dun dun dunnnnn.
You guys aren't looking at this from a more practical point of view - what about people who are bedridden, or have a hard time moving in shopping crowds, and need something immediately, like food or medication? I see this be useful under the right circumstances.
*being useful. I need some coffee.
EXTERMINATE!!! high prices..
I'm interested in the concept of being mauled without even knowing it's happening.......
How does a robot pay for your shopping? Robots with credit cards, no way I'm trusting cash or my cards to shopbot. Plus, what happens if they get robbed by a mugbot? No no no, nothing about this seems right.
americans: robot wars, the japanese: this thing.
idea-bot 9000