If you guys notice... in the trailer, the voice says "By the year 2005, every home will have a NDR-114"... Well, it's almost 2007, so WHERE ARE THE ROBOTS??
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Mein bratwurst has a second name, it's S-C-H-N-A-C-K-E-N-P-F-E-F-F-E-R-H-A-U-S-E-N.
Dude...love your signature...I am cracking up. I grew up with the Oscar Meyer commercial bologna commercial.
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Its not real but there are proto types in china by the year 2030 they predict
shareThere's also the Honda Asimo robot.. They've been working on that since the 80s, and it seems to be coming along well.
shareAsimo isn't really prototypical of the type of robot that would be used in the service industry. As impressive and cool as that project is, it's really just an expensive toy.
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I've actually seen ads and marketing material online that say (or at least suggest) that Honda envisions the Asimo to be used in the service industry, and that's what the Asimo is being designed for. The Asimo may seem like only an expensive toy now, but maybe that's only because it's still in development.
shareAsimo is merely a marketing tool. While it has been a proving ground for several new technologies, don't expect anything like that to be in the first round of commercially available butler-bots. Asimo is far too expensive, fragile, and limited for anything of that sort.
Personally, I'm watching Boston Dynamics. Their stabilizing algorithms are more organic than anything I've ever seen in a robot, truly mesmerizing to watch.
Check out the BigDog project: [link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-AGWq0k_Mo&feature=channel[/link]
They have even started a bipedal project working on the same principles:[link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67CUudkjEG4/link]
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Ah, yes, I've seen some BigDog videos, and it does look interesting. The bipedal robot looks interesting too. Still looks like the Asimo could have some of the same applications though. Also, I have a hard time believing that Honda would invest so much money and time working on Asimo (they've been working on it since the 80s) if it's only a marketing tool.
shareNot to be rude, but isn't that fuel for my point of view? Nearly a quarter-century of revisions to a robot without a single one put into mass production...
The only thing Honda has to show for it is an amazing, albeit practically useless, little robot that does red-carpet shows, high-profile publicity stunts, and appearances in Honda's look-how-progressive-we-are type commercials.
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Not to be rude, but isn't that fuel for my point of view? Nearly a quarter-century of revisions to a robot without a single one put into mass production...
Aiming for Function in the Human Living Space
Honda wants to create a partner for people, a new kind of robot that functions in society.
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Yes, BigDog is in production. I haven't checked in on the bipedal project in several months, last I saw it was quite a ways off of production. Keep in mind, however, these projects started only a handful of years ago. BigDog was developed for production, so Boston Dynamics landed a government contract as soon as possible so they could get a working model in the field.
Honda uses Asimo to prove new technologies and build their brand to sell more cars. Plain and simple. You won't be able to convince me otherwise until you show me Asimo sitting on a shelf at Best Buy.
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PLEASE ACCEPT MY OWNER'S APOLOGIES, BUT HE IS TOO BUSY TO ANSWER YOUR QUERY AT THE MOMENT. -- ROBOTOID 885647aq
share"PLEASE ACCEPT MY OWNER'S APOLOGIES, BUT HE IS TOO BUSY TO ANSWER YOUR QUERY AT THE MOMENT. -- ROBOTOID 885647aq"
HA HA HA!!!!!! Really funny.
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Dude thats priceless...
shareLOL brilliant!
shareHumanoid robots and sustained nuclear fusion are always thirty years in the future.
shareSpeaking of which:
Where are my floating cars and my condo on the moon?
[url=http://imdb.com/title/tt0089907/board/nest/20861379?p=8]Walmart with Zombies outside[/url]
Where are my floating cars and my condo on the moon?
Certain things are very likely to be possible and others aren't. There have been successful predictions. Asimov himself and various other people predicted the internet decades in advance, for example. Mobile 'phones are another instance of something which was anticipated a long time before they were actually invented. Other things are less probable, such as artificial gravity without a centrifugal effect, antigravity and faster than light travel. Flying cars exist but they use jet engines rather than antigravity, and consequently are noisy and use a lot of fuel. Other things are more likely. For instance, teleportation can already be done with collections of a few atoms if they are extremely cold, and objects can be made invisible to microwaves and there is nothing in principle that suggests they couldn't be made invisible to ordinary light too. In the case of robots, why not? They've been anticipated for centuries. Humans are, in a sense, living machines, physical objects which are able to feel, think and behave intelligently. I can't think of any reason why a machine could not be made that would not behave as a human would. However, it would have no experiences when it was first activated, and that would be a problem unless those experiences could somehow be loaded into its "brain" before it was switched on.
shareThis 'electro' fashion was predicted in Back To The Future.
BTW, 'condo on the moon', ROFL!
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
*beep*, I always forget to read all the responses before posting...now i feel stupid...I still want my flying car though, don't think I forgot about it, scientists.
Don't *beep* a *beep*...wait! beep? It was meant to say *beep*. *beep*!...no! not beep!...*beep
A week after they start selling robots we will see the robot rights activists marching on Washington.
shareso from the original post, i learned that movie trailers, aside from being entertaining in themselves, also serve as realistic ads for the future... fair enough. i hate when they lie... don't you?
sharethe resources that could have made the world so much more technologically advanced have been squandered by the military industrial complex of the USa and many other nations. War mongers, patriots and nationalistic mandate has wasted untold possibilities for the quality of human life.
shareSci-Fi movies always portray super-advanced technologies that will be at our disposal in "X" number of years. The "X" number is ALWAYS wrong and way off, and we never have close to that type of technology. Predictions of future technology are always way off and overly optimistic.
shareYou are an idiot.
Do you even know where the internet came from?
I'd rather have a Cherry 2000 ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092746/ )than a flying car, or a Robin William's robot... I wonder if he's hairy too...
I'd be worried about having a robot like Andrew. Supposing he malfunctions and I come down to the kitchen one morning to find him shagging the toaster?
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