NTUST's humanoid robot walks into your nightmare
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Sep 25th 2008 8:55AM
posted Sep 25th 2008 8:55AM
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Couldn't they at least ahve made the guy a bit better looking?
Come wit me if you want to liv.
Now I know why those Koreans always kick my ass in counterstrike, cybernetic implants!
@steve, that's because you suck at FPS game. Don't take the blame on the others.
By the way, these kids are from Taiwan (not Korea), the little island southeast of China
Would have been cool to make him look like arnold... at least put sunglasses and a leather jacket on it.
@tom
I'm sorry if you were born without a sense of humor, but do you have to take out your frustrations on other people?
@tom
I'm sorry that you were born without a sense of humor, but don't go taking out your frustrations on me.
why does a robot need glasses?
To see to the other side!
I really wouldn't mind a smaller form factor that way it is closer to the size of my Wii.
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Run kids, it's a DorkBot!
What's wrong with the way "it" looks? I see that face everytime I look in the mirror.
anantha92 --- i just don,t think i can deal with a talking stick right now,
sad part is we only get to see tec that is 25 years old right,the
gov is playing around with tec we might never live long enough to see
or know about,one has to assume the military is way more advanced ,
with their robotics then they r saying ,n thats just one of the fears
Dam it my crack pipe keeps going out,maybe if i went in my oxygen tent
it will burn better ,ohhhh yaaaa. oooou, colors ,what the,,,
Is that his completed twin standing behind him?
these stupid japanese, why couldn't they invest in something more realistic that can be more USE to the human race instead of creating something that will one day take over us....boooooooo
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At this point the newly re-animated Sam was having some serious second thoughts about donating his remains for that research program.
Is it my paranoia or it really looks scary?
It looks more scared of us.
Perhaps it should be.
The Uncanny Valley just gets wider and wider.
The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy.
WHY on earth the robots have to have human faces !?
is the movie 'i, robot' on a 65+ age restriction in Taiwan?? if not, have they seem it yet?
If I built a robot, I'd make one that could see without glasses.
I think my coffee just came out of my nose.
wow that was funny
AAAAAARGH!
ROBOGEEK!
Runaway! Runaway!
Is it just me or do we seem to be following a uneasy similar path to the predictions of world domination by robots brought on in books and movies?
i was thinking the same thing.
wow. that looks like something i saw years ago on twilight zone i think it was.
and while on the subject.
how do you put a user icon on here?
well at least give some feedback about THE robot, not just about its face, or the face is the only thing you can understand and you know NADA about the robot?
They could have at least put Arnold Schwarzenegger's face on there.
Why does it need glasses? You would think an advanced machine like this would have 20-20 vision.
There's better than 20-20 vision. Apparently someone has never reached the bottom of the chart. (10-20, ability to read at 20 feet that the average will be able to read at 10 feet.)
Our need to make ROBOTS humanlike will def be our downfall. And that head scares me.. Does it have to look like a real head just to show it can walk?
Ignatius
i have and 5-20
after i had laser eye surgery in 2001
Pacific Rim Robo Urkel
Looks like an amateur ASIMO.
I'm going to have nightmares tonight.
arrrrrgh!
Just a guess, I think the guy in white shirt is the one design for this robot. They look identical. lol
He always wanted to have a twin brother. Now he can! :)
*BZZZT* WHERE IS SARAH CONOR?!
... at least they could put the head of Arnold on that thing, cuz' getting killed by this guy is way to embarrassing.
Ugh, welcome to the uncanny valley. That thing is just creepy and disconcerting.
Poor guy.
We'll at least it's 10x better than china robots and stop complaining about it. I want to see you building a high detail robot.
That's just harsh.. Beheading someone and then putting his head on a robot!
What the deuce!
Automobile?
I love tech and all but this type of stuff should be banned. That is some creepy shit. If you are going to make robots they shouldn't even be in humanoid form much less have a face like that.
Judging by the looks, it will talk nerdy to you, as in order to distract enough for it to ram its metal claw right through your entrails. Once these are out to hunt the fleshies in packs, frightened observers will scream "BUT THEY LOOKED LIKE DORKS!" into every camera pointed at them.
So they went to all that trouble to make a robot and they made a 4 ft" tall asian one......all I can say is if he can't make me a damn good eggroll my trust in humanity has been eroded
Sparks:"But your robot will be a brain surgeon!"
Murphey: Ah thats bunk, if he cant even break the 5'0 barrired, he cant be a a brain surgeon.
Stormy: okay, so what if i put my brain in a robot body, and then there was a war between robots vs humans, which side would i be on?
Debbie: humans! you still have a human brain.
Sparks: but the humans would discriminate against you. You can't even vote!
Marco: man, we better not have to live on reservations, that would really chap my caboose
Murphy: "Nails are like candy to robots. And we'll eat tires instead of licorice."
Debbie: "Gawd! No we won't"
Murphy: "Maybe you won't!"
Why not a pretty girl's head?
I am scared.
this is harry potters new movie "harry potter and the cyberworld"...
Meh. I'll wait for rev. B.
Come on! They are just college kids. What do you do in college?
Argh it's the Nerdinator O_o
Gah! There is no God...