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Video From The CMU Robotics Institute Showcase 62

Posted by timothy from the dancing-queen dept.
mpost4 writes "This last week the CMU Robotics Institute showed off some of the stuff they were doing. They were showing the new stuff they were working on. I with two of my coworks drop by there and we got this video of it, so you can see some of the cool stuff they are doing."
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Video From The CMU Robotics Institute Showcase

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  • I hope the hosting company has the bills paid up because this is going to be a brutal /. effect.

    • Re:Linking a .mov? (Score:3, Interesting)

      by mpost4 ( 115369 ) *
      Yeap they are paied up. I get 25Gb of bandwidth a month (lets hope it will hold with slashdot)

      I also posted straight to the Mov because I don't think the slashdot people would want to see the blog or entry but if you are intersted the blog entry is at this link [mikeoconnor.net] any my site is here [mikeoconnor.net]
      • Yeap they are paied up. I get 25Gb of bandwidth a month (lets hope it will hold with slashdot)

        Dude... The movie is almost 8MB. It only takes a little more than 3000 downloads to reach your 25 GB (an eighth of that if it's in gigabits). Or 3307.5 downloads to be exact. That's NOT much for slashdot...
        • I know but when I originaly made the post they had only used a few MB, and that was at about 8:45am (an hour and 15 after the original post) it took some time before the people started to go (a long time) I guess I have proof that /. people don't read the articals, if it takes over an hour and a half for the traffic to come flying in.
        • The other good news is, if I need to I can always by more bandwidth from my hosting company ehostpros They have got good prices. (hay for $6 more a month I can get an extra 500Mb of space and 10Gb of bandwidth)
  • Site's still up..... Wow, Those robots run a good site :P

  • Huh? (Score:3, Funny)

    by kubrick ( 27291 ) on Monday October 18, 2004 @07:47AM (#10555052)
    "This last week the CMU Robotics Institute showed off some of the stuff they were doing. They were showing the new stuff they were working on. I with two of my coworks drop by there and we got this video of it, so you can see some of the cool stuff they are doing."

    Can we have some adjectives? Please? I understand they're doing 'stuff', and I imagine it has to do with robots, but what?

    And what's a cowork? Is this some sort of Tolkien/Gary Larson crossover?

    • Re:Huh? (Score:3, Funny)

      by house15 ( 724401 )
      OOoooo, stuff. I love stuff. Especially cool stuff. I can't wait to RTFA about cool stuff. Stuff they are working on. Then share it with my coworks. That will be cool.
    • Adjectives? What, aren't 'new' and 'cool' good enough for you?

      As to 'coworks', that happens to be an amalgamation of 'coworker' and 'cohort', thank you very much, Mr. Pedant. It's a perfectly valid and reasonable word!

      Some people are never happy with anything ...

      • What, aren't 'new' and 'cool' good enough for you?

        Enough to have me salivating with consumerist delight. After all, who wants 'old' and 'warm'?

        But seriously, that story wasn't really much better than "OMG K3wL! Ch3ck 0ut $tu44", at least in terms of actually informing me about anything. Anything at all.

        Some people are never happy with anything ...

        Sorry, I'll get back in my box now.

    • Re:Huh? (Score:3, Funny)

      by MustardMan ( 52102 )
      Worst... stuff... EVER!

  • Video of the year. (Score:2, Interesting)

    by nateb ( 59324 )
    There were some pretty nifty designs in there... I wish I could get a dune buggy that was smart enough to auto-pilot across the usa, myself...

    oh, I an just /love/ the bagpipes.

  • i spot 2 dupes in these 3 lines

  • Coral Cache Link (Score:3, Informative)

    by Agret ( 752467 ) <alias DOT zero2097 AT gmail DOT com> on Monday October 18, 2004 @07:57AM (#10555074) Homepage Journal
    Coral Cache Link:
    http://www.mikeoconnor.net.nyud.net:8090/Vi deos/Ro botics.mov

    Pretty cool stuff there! Please use this link instead of the article one to avoid the /. effect (unless Coral get /. lol!)
  • So if I'm not mistaken, CMU was showing off the stuff they were doing by showing off the new stuff they were working on in a video that shows the cool stuff they are doing.

  • After watching the video (Score:3, Informative)

    by jeff munkyfaces ( 643988 ) on Monday October 18, 2004 @08:03AM (#10555091)
    i am no longer surprised that it has not been slashdotted. Dullest video about robots ever?
  • I have to admit I expected something more... A lot of the "stuff" strikes me as fun physics experiments and excercises in robotics. Not that I am an expert or anything, but it seemed to me like there was a shortage of novelty in the video. More "smaller and better" than "innovative". Still, some fun geek stuff.

    I also completely missed what the head on the screen was. Some sort of virtual prototype?

  • Where were the freakin laser beams?

    Where were the robots living on the reservation eating tyres like licorice?

    Where was even a large metallic being screaming "Danger Danger Will Robinson" when trying to protect Will from a pederast doctor.

    Robots these days, I don't know...

  • Actually making music with bagpipes might help too....

  • Do the guy a favor (Score:3, Informative)

    by Danathar ( 267989 ) on Monday October 18, 2004 @08:24AM (#10555202) Journal
    Do the guy a favor and use the coral link to the movie instead of the normal one....

    http://www.mikeoconnor.net.nyud.net:8090/Videos/Ro botics.mov [nyud.net]
  • If it weren't for having seen half the stuff on slashdot before, I wouldn't have any idea what the heck any of that stuff was supposed to be about. Much of it has been covered in better detail before here on slashdot, and the interesting bits about each project were entirely ignored. There's even a video of that first robot swimming somewhere. Actually, google for "CMU robot swimming" returns this slashdot story [slashdot.org] if you're interested.

    ~Lake
  • What's the definition of a gentleman?

    Someone who can play bagpipes, but doesn't.
    Someone said the ./ effect would be brutal. What about the melodious bagpipes!

  • I love this school (Score:4, Informative)

    by feelyoda ( 622366 ) on Monday October 18, 2004 @11:08AM (#10556299) Homepage
    Been at RI for over a year now. I highly urge anyone interested in the video to apply. You can _easily_ be working on any of those projects if you just apply yourself.

    The video only showed a small fraction of what is to be found at RI.
    • I actually said the following line last week as I was trying to get to the University Center:

      "Would you please move your damn robot out of the way?"

      Only at CMU....
    • "I highly urge anyone interested in the video to apply." Got any advice for a graduating senior who's about to?
      • well, i'm a master's student, so you're talking about grad school, right?

        for my essay, I researched a few programs, and wrote about those that interested me. I stressed those which will have a big impact on society and have a great application in transfer of tech from academia to industry, like security & health care.

        I did work in graduate classes at my undergrad, NYU, related to computer vision & AI, which was positive.

        I worked hard to get a decent grade(75th percentile) on the CS GRE. [not requ
        • Thanks for the response. I'm applying to the CALD Ph.D. program and I have some research projects and decent grades and test scores so hopefully it'll go well.
  • Call me after a few of the teams can get cars out of the parking lot at the starting line.
  • They built a robot that plays the bagpipes? CMU has the robot thing down, but maybe they should think about adding a robot ethics course.

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