Simon the robot wins award, is super cute, seems pretty boring to hang out with

Simon -- the creation of Georgia Tech labs and Dr. Andrea Thomaz -- is a robot with an articulated torso and anthropomorphic hands -- and a head that will stop you in your tracks. This handsome little fellow was designed to help study human - robot interactions, and he will be learning different social skills over the coming weeks and months. We don't have many details as to what Simon spends his time doing, other than hanging out looking insanely cute, but check the video of him in action after the break -- and by "in action," we definitely mean putting a blue block into a little blue bucket super, super slowly.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 12:41PM]

Tuck the wires away, his intestines are hanging out.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 12:42PM]

Is this the first gay-robot?

[kjb434 Posted Aug 24th 2009 12:50PM]

nope, CP30 took that spot!

[JeezWhiz87 Posted Aug 24th 2009 12:58PM]

...C-3PO

[tankgunk Posted Aug 24th 2009 12:44PM]

It looks bored. They should teach it to do something more fun.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 2:36PM]

see title

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 8:48PM]

Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they get me to put bricks into bins.

[Pontro Posted Aug 24th 2009 12:50PM]

Simon Cowell?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 12:59PM]

I'm sorry. Was that...what was that...was it supposed to be a...

That was absolutely horrible.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 1:00PM]

You got a perdy mouth... oh wait

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 1:01PM]

no american robot can still walk? they are all wheelchair bound.. we need to beat the japanese in this field or were doomed.. they had walking robots since the 90's what gives??

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 1:04PM]

LMFAO,....agreed

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 1:07PM]

Not only they have walking robots... they also have this one:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/22/video-robot-hand-shows-off-amazing-dexterity-speed/

[tankgunk Posted Aug 24th 2009 1:07PM]

We Americans just know that walking robots are too slow and tipsy to take over the world. Daleks > Cybermen.

[tankgunk Posted Aug 24th 2009 1:13PM]

Heh, imagine the uber fast hand on one of those walking robots. Slowly, the robot walks towards you, then in the blink of an eye it's holding your heart.

[rock99rock Posted Aug 24th 2009 2:25PM]

I'm pretty sure the "Big Dog" makes up for any and everything you want in an American robot...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/video-bigdog-turned-into-bigbull-with-bighorns/

Back on topic, if this particular robots' ears turn red, duck for cover.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 1:05PM]

it wasn't....that slow..

[PlatinumSkeet Posted Aug 24th 2009 1:07PM]

Is it me or does this robot look CG?

[tankgunk Posted Aug 24th 2009 1:08PM]

Yes, they faked a lame robot.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 1:10PM]

Looks more like Marvin from HGTTG.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 1:10PM]

imagine the possibilities if it only had a mouth

[DRoizman Posted Aug 24th 2009 1:14PM]

Thats what you said

[tankgunk Posted Aug 24th 2009 1:18PM]

Good. For a second there I wasn't sure it was really s0dOIS...

[DSquared Posted Aug 24th 2009 1:23PM]

good god. he's stoned out of his mind

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 1:30PM]

Are you absolutely certain you don't mean "Human-cyborg relations"?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 2:13PM]

In the word's of Peter Griffin.
" How come are scientist never come with anything cool? "

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 2:20PM]

I for one welcome my new "Simon Says" overlord!

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 2:46PM]

Hat tip??

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 3:38PM]

So will this robot allow me to do "things" to it? you know, the things you can usually do with a woman, but without having to deal with the bitchiness, headaches, and pms......

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 4:24PM]

Althought from the looks of him if you needed a pot smoking buddy he'd be all for it......

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 4:45PM]

This is how we shall prevent robots from taking over the world. We shall make them all tree hugging hippies.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 4:56PM]

It looks like Henry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_(comics)

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 26th 2009 4:55PM]

kind of cute...

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 10:08PM]

Looks like if it had gelled black hair with purple highlights, and some red marks on his robo-arms, he'd be the perfect example of an emo robot working at an assembly line... or an emo working at an assembly line. Either way they are both relatively the same.

[Dreamscape86 Posted Aug 25th 2009 1:22AM]

The article title sounds like my first girlfriend.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 29th 2009 7:04PM]

notice how the bot even has bicep cut outs

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