Camel-Riding Robots

misterpies writes "Of the many jobs robots could be put to use, here's one I'll bet not many slashdotters have considered - camel jockeys. According to the BBC, from next year racing camels in the United Arab Emirates will be ridden by robots. And for once, the folks put out of work won't be complaining - mostly children (some as young as four) who are reportedly abducted or sold by their families to unscrupulous racing-camel owners. How long until we see robots take over from humans in other sports?"

Crossover

[suso]

Sounds like Short Circuit meets Ishtar or City Slickers. They should do a remake now.

Battle-Bots

[maotx]

How long until we see robots take over from humans in other sports?

Better yet, how long until we see robots take over humans for sports?
Nothing like the sound of a solid ka-thunk of a head to make a goal in front of a roaring crowd of robots.

money

[mboverload]

20 rubees on Robo-Akmed!

Wow.

[dayid]

I do believe this is the stupidest story I've ever seen posted here.

Yeah, right...

[brilinux]

Here's one not many slashdotters have considered

Pshaww... pretty much as soon as I found out what a robot was when I was a child, the first thing that came to my mind was, "I wonder if such things could be made to ride camels". Geesh, I wonder where that submitter has been all his life...

PETR

[bigtallmofo]

Wait until People for the Ethical Treatment of Robots starts throwing oil on the camels in protest!

Re:Wow.

[isa-kuruption]

Wait until it's reposted... later today.

This a major blow for parents

[Timesprout]

One of our best misbehaviour prevention threats has been removed. Now the kids wont believe us when we threaten them with being sold to an arab for a life of camel racing. Please tell me they have not yet developed a camel pooper scooper robot, so at least we can still threaten them with a life of camel dung collection.

Yah, but...

[JustOK]

Sure they can run camels, but can they run linux?

Problem ahead?

[YrWrstNtmr]

Has anyone asked the camels what they think of this? Large evil beasts might not take to kindly to having robotic jockey overlords.

But the strange thing is

[DrXym]

These "robots" will look curiously like small children wrapped in tinfoil...

Robots in sports

[TripMaster Monkey]

From the summary:

How long until we see robots take over from humans in other sports?

Bender: Clem Johnson? That skin bag wouldn't have lasted one pitch in the old Robot Leagues! Now
Wireless Joe Jackson, there was a blern hitting machine!

Leela: Exactly! He was a machine designed to hit blerns! I mean come on! Wireless Joe was nothing but a programmable bat on wheels.

Bender: Oh and I suppose PitchingBot 5000 was just a modified howitzer.

A danger to our industry.

[Anonymous Coward]

PETA throwing motor oil? I sure hope not! I work in the rendering plant where we take lambs and bleed them to death in order to provide PETA liquid blood to pour on furs during their protess. They are our biggest client right now.

Re:Now, this is an example...

[Anonymous Coward]

My favourite strange sport is the biathlon. I suppose it was invented by the government to produce proficient alpine snipers for warfare in the arctic areas of the planet.

Robots will shine.

[AtariAmarok]

"Robots will shine in sports..."

Only when properly buffed and waxed, mind you.

Reality for robots

[netman12]

This is just in time! We can let them take over from humans in reality TV shows.

Survivor 25: twenty robots stranded on a desert island, equipped with only 5 bolts and a single AA battery, battle it out to see who can make it the longest without a change of oil.

I mean, really!

[ABaumann]

Has anyone asked the camels how they feel about this?

Re:Problem ahead?

[wootest]

Maybe people figure that they, for one, would welcome their new robotic jockey overlords.

Re:Now, this is an example...

[GrumpyDeveloper]

we, in the west, put migets on horses

Actually, the politically correct term is "little people", you insensitive clod...

Maybe they could replace the fans...

[Belial6]

I'd rather see them replace the fans with robots. Then we can stop listening to people yelling about how they are number 1, because some millionair that couldn't care whether they live or die, made a touchdown.

Evil Western Influence

[liquid-groove]

Damn the yankee imperialist dogs for their evil Western influence. How dare they destroy a time honored tradition of selling children into bondage.

When will the West learn that their technology and influence is against the will of Allah?

Re:A danger to our industry.

[Anonymous Coward]

I work in the rendering plant where we take lambs and bleed them to death in order to provide PETA liquid blood.

NOTE TO MODERATORS: PARENT IS BULLSHITTING.

Everyone knows PETA uses the blood of kittens, not lambs.

Re:Now, this is an example...

[maxwell demon]

No, deficits is clearly negative.

Now, being smaller means there's less difference in gravity potencial between head and feet. According to general relativity, this means less difference in speed of time. Therefore I propose as next term:

better synchronized people

Now, thinking about it, this may be negative towards the tall people ...

I can already see it...

[InsaneCreator]

Bend it like soccer unit 3500-4X!