robuRIDE30 robot vehicle shuttles people into the future -- with boredom
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted January 28th 2009 10:42AM
posted January 28th 2009 10:42AM
The future has been so... boring lately! We used to dream of flying cars and nanotech, and now we're lucky if we can get a GE SmartMeter appliance 'round our way. Adding one more to the list of things that do not particularly excite anyone, robuRIDE is a device that harnesses the power of cutting-edge robotry and puts it in what amounts to a bus stop. With wheels. Developed in France by a company called robosoft, previous iterations of the thing are in service at Vulcania Park and Simserhof Fort in France, while robuRIDE30, the latest prototype (captured on video after the break) will be wowing visitors to the Rome Exhibition Center soon-ish. The good news is that, since they top out at around 15 mph, these autonomous vehicles are probably too slow to be at the forefront of the coming robot invasion. Unless that's just what we're supposed to think...
[Via Robots.net]
[Via Robots.net]
Hey! we need a few hundred of these in Ottawa
LMAO Your so right David. But truth is, I don't miss those ignorant drivers one bit. So these would be a great option for us. I love the extra lane we have now, and don't have to worry about them cutting us off anymore. Plus all the little tini-boppers from Mac HS are no longer hanging around in front of my building/inside my foyer loitering anymore.
Microsoft making robots now?
'cmon, where in that video did you see it crash?
Might have been a poor performance joke. After all, I could walk faster than that thing.
looks like a bus stand on wheels.
That's what they said.
ATTTTAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaCCCKKK...
Why is it taking so long? Oh. Ok. We can wait for you. No, no, please dont cry... Ah, now you've gone ahead and done it... There there, it's ok. We can walk slower... Ok, I've redone the calculations, we should now reach the human headquarters in: 82 million years.
I like how it goes slower then walking speeds.
you walk 15mph?
Apparently the man in the video walks faster than 15mph, then, because he out-walked it.
"Robot where are we going?"
"To HELL!"
"Well Robot, we're already in France, I guess that wouldn't be much worse."
Traveling at 3x the speed of... walking!
Don't attempt to break the sound barrier with that thing. Come on- at least get it to a somewhat average speed of 20- 25 mph.
its a chooo chooo :)
They'll just use them to cart our rotting, laser burned corpses to the recycling tanks.
At this speed, I'll rather walk, thank you.
Can someone tell me what the fuzz is here? That the thing has no driver? And that's new? In Rotterdam that's already going for a few years now: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkshuttle
I prefer buses.
So this robot is currently deporting French and Italians to... oh, it just takes them for a spin, I see. Lovely apocalyptic background noise though. GET A WINDSCREEN!
Fahrenheit 451 has arrived! Get ready to burn your books.
hmmm. I expected more. It's a cool concept but 15 MPH?? I'm still waiting to have a robot as a maid like Rosie on the Jetsons or like this guy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uen0f2EDKQ&feature=channel_page
ahw! mAN i thought this was the porta potty of the future :-(
Ok, this is ridiculously slow ... Notice at 1:34 the dude walking at about the same speed with the bus thingy. What is the point of this?