Video: Rollin' Justin and DESIRE robots take out trash, follow commands

Future Parc Hall, an out-of-the-way palace where we spotted Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft's iPoint 3D yesterday, was also home to two of the baddest, most sophisticated robots we've ever had the pleasure of watching. Tattooed DESIRE (the orange guy) and Rollin' Justin (the blue fellow), these two humanoids were built with the hope of one day being available for sale to elderly and single individuals who need another being around the house to take care of things. DESIRE seemed mighty great at picking up random cans and tossing 'em in the garbage, while Rollin' Justin listened intently to commands from his master, spoke aloud to confirm them, and then obeyed. We captured everything on video for those who couldn't make it to CeBIT, so hop on past the break to have a look.

Gallery: Rollin' Justin and DESIRE robots take out trash, follow commands

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DESIRE throws out old cans

Rollin' Justin obeys commands, shows off behind German announcer

[iGoon @ Mar 4th 2009 5:28PM]

still "Short Circuit" designed...

Want to see TERMINATOR skeleton design...

If you are going to send robots to war you want some of them to look like they are bringing death...

[The WC @ Mar 4th 2009 5:32PM]

"Make me a sandwich"

"I can only throw out cans."

"Sudo make me a sandwich."

"Okay."

[egghead @ Mar 4th 2009 5:46PM]

Forever fear the command, "sudo kill owner".

[Eltorro @ Mar 4th 2009 5:34PM]

We make robots our bitches.

[mugupo @ Mar 4th 2009 5:49PM]

Will not be long, we (human) will be the one taking trash for them.

[Brian White @ Mar 4th 2009 6:12PM]

The second one reminds me of some robot from the NES Megaman games.

[Link2877 @ Mar 4th 2009 6:38PM]

Wow no ones made a sex bot joke about DESIRE's name yet? I'm disappointed in you engadget.

[Gad Get @ Mar 4th 2009 6:53PM]

Enough with the slow motion!

Oh, right...

[Generalguy41 @ Mar 4th 2009 7:12PM]

has anyone tried the command "kill all hum...

OH GOD THEYRE HERE!!! RUN AWAaiwupgnlfazdfnx....

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[Dan @ Mar 4th 2009 7:30PM]

i'll be impressed when robots are doing household tasks at double the speed of a human, until then they're rubbish

[strider_mt2k @ Mar 4th 2009 8:10PM]

Three Laws, kids.

Three Laws.

[Zapp @ Mar 4th 2009 8:51PM]

Hmm. I really wanted to be impressed. By something other than industrial design, that is.

There is nothing to see here. Either they're not doing anything that assembly line robots haven't been doing for 20 years, or they're not giving an effective demonstration. The "follow" routine is nothing but CNC, and the "throw away cans" routine is an intern's summer project.

[itsnotabigtruck @ Mar 4th 2009 9:27PM]

Dead on.

To everybody cracking jokes about these things taking over the world - the awesomeness quotient would have to be several orders of magnitude higher for these things to even do household crap, let alone launch a war against humanity. :p

[Travis @ Mar 5th 2009 12:59AM]

Hrm... I think I prefer Justin "Dancing Like In Pulp Fiction"

http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/03/04/rollin-justin-coins-new-robot-command-dance-pulp-fiction

[Shana @ Mar 5th 2009 7:33PM]

Can someone translate all the things Justin is saying? I don't speak German so watching that thing wiggle around all I hear is "Death to America, I will now kill your elders. Would you like a sandwich?"