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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[Ummm,  isn't he basically a PRINTER? <br><br>or is that a racist remark?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Flashpoint]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 11:14AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[A slow printer, may i add.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TomTom2007]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 12:27PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[Or you could say, a Plotter.<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Magallanes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 29th 2008 9:03AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[I love robots!!!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 11:25AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[Love-bots!!!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[gad get]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 28th 2008 8:01AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[Looks a bit like Mario to me!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mike]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 11:28AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[He looks like Chucky when he starts stabbing Eric]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Don]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 1:41PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[Man I haven't seen a Chucky movie in a LONG time!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mike]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 2:14PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[yeah he does. do you work at HP with my dad James Johnson]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tray-J]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 28th 2008 2:05PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[this so called painting looks exactly like one of those photo booths you see at the mall, only this one has a robot attached.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[pavelbure]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 11:40AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[has an Italian look but speaks like Englishman ....Hmmm ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ayman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 11:40AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[I just noticed the Wii in the End of the clip, whats the deal with that?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ayman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 11:43AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[Easy to program for it. Its a wide open product with no strings attached as far as encryption or proprietary transmits go.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ghen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 8:19PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[DO realize what he would bring in at fairs and tradeshows???<br><br>"Ten dollars for your portrait sir"<br><br>I want a Salvador for my very on ;)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gavin Seim]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 11:43AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[I can't wait until someone hacks him to draw people naked.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Zinger314]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 11:45AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[anyone else notice the Wiimote near the end? when he asks if he needs another portrait :o]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[MagicWuff]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 11:47AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[The wiimote is used to start and cancel commands for the robot.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Trevor]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 1:02PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[Wow that's cool, although why did he write the name so strangely, and what if you have a relly long name?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Russell Bishop]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 11:47AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[this one reminds of good old pen plotter, the difference is random strokes compared to x,y plotting]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[siva]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 11:48AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[I, for one, welcome our paint-brush wielding robotic overlords.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[0ddB0t]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 12:08PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[The robot is amazing, but its English is pretty bad. Was it a pre-scripted, Or was the robot using AI to hold the conversation? If its the latter then I'm impressed. If not then the engineers need to work harder on translating. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Trevor]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 12:18PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[3:45 - "My final satisfaction is my rear ward, money as well."<br><br>TOO MUCH INFORMATION.<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[LarryLarryLarry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 4:21PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[This'll win me no friends, but this beret-wearing piece of tech seems to be doing simple representational art, albeit rather well, but not surrealism a la Dali... Is the surrealist robot coming out next year? Salvador 2.0?<br><br><a href="http://chinesezodiacmarriagecombinations.com" rel="nofollow">http://chinesezodiacmarriagecombinations.com</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Neolight]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 12:47PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[But then you have to ask an important question: Can robots create art? I personally don't think they can, because art requires imagination and emotion, something a robot does not have (yet). ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Trevor]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 1:02PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[ha ha ha that robot is full of win.<br><br>"wow I really looks like you"]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ferny]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 12:54PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[Replace brush with knife, begin Armageddon.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Artie Lange]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 1:09PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[This is stupid for the following reasons:<br><br>1. This is basically a very, very slow printer.<br>2.  It's not doing anything that hasn't been available for over a decade.<br>3.  It's needlessly shaped like a human.<br>4.  It pretends to have emotions and feelings.<br><br>Stupid!  Stupid!  Stupid!<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stiv]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 1:45PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[1. Rollercoasters are basically very, very fast and terribly wrong railways<br>2. Forget the Quad Core processor, people build processors twenty years ago, how lame.<br>3. People love to pretend talking to each other, and I bet they are glad paying for someone they don't have to care about at all<br>4. So you want the thing to act like a real printer and a digital camera? Good look setting that up at the fair.<br><br>You are just afraid of our robotic overlords. The day will come and we shall all perish in the metal uprising. Until then, let's enjoy the funny crap people build out of sophisticated technology just to goof off. Just because some technologies have existed for a while doesn't mean they can't be re-combined into one hilarious piece of redundant machinery. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[meist3r]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 1:57PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[Fake, the guy had a Wii remote ... he probably drew his own portrait with the motion controls and just had the robot draw the physical lines for him ... wait, that would be even more awesome.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[meist3r]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 1:51PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[I'd be more impressed if he could draw portraits on an  Etch-a-Sketch.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 3:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[You could try give that robot a bunch of algorithms and that could make the robot make something that would look more like electronic art, though always with some type of artificial limit. But with the correct algorithms, using random as well, it could help..]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Charbax]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 3:42PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[We just installed our new artist AI software, then it ran off screaming it couldn't be creative under such repressive conditions, then got drunk, caught a plane to Cuba, got drunk again then died after it used the contents of it's power cells to painting a picture of a fat guy on a beach. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 5:50PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[ha, it's so obnoxious. i love it.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[konshuss]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 6:42PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[Pussydoodles!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 28th 2008 12:07AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[But will it blend? (sorry someone had to say it)<br><br>Does this just look like Sonys QURO with a pringles guy mustache?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ibanez32]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 28th 2008 4:21AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[Egomaniac robot that speaks in broken English! Looks funny too!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[toronado455]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 28th 2008 6:27AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[sorry i know this is off topic but how do you change the display pic for the comments. Thanks]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Aman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 28th 2008 1:36PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[never mind sorry]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Aman B.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 28th 2008 1:40PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Salvador DaBot: robot portraitist extraordinaire]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/salvador-dabot-robot-portraitist-extraordinaire/</guid><description><![CDATA[Wow, what a nice robot ^_^]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Uuker]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 29th 2008 3:44PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
