Robot Aims To Walk On Water 125
qeorqe writes "CMU researchers are developing a robot that runs across water (PDF). It is modeled after the basilisk lizard, which has that rare ability. The researchers have done both computer simulations and experiments with test models."
I Bet It Sinks (Score:5, Funny)
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No! It should be... (Score:2)
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I think it would be 01001000011000010110110001101100011001010110110001 110101011010100110000101101000.
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I used to sit around watching them when I was a kid. Funny as hell when they're tearing across the lake like the devils on their tail, then they trip over a wave, face plant and disappear.
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I think it would be 01001000011000010110110001101100011001010110110001 110101011010100110000101101000.
Canadian Loons do this too. They can't take off without speed, so they run across the surface of the lake until they're going fast enough.
I used to sit around watching them when I was a kid. Funny as hell when they're tearing across the lake like the devils on their tail, then they trip over a wave, face plant and disappear.
Loons speak binary? But they don't have enough MHZ to process it unless they run?
I think you might be a confused loon... (and I don't think you can speak binary no matter how fast you run.
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Cheers!
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Cheers!
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Already done (Score:5, Funny)
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oooh (Score:1)
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I thought just the same. How is this even on Slashdot? This is obviously 2007 year old dupe! Hardly newsworthy...
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I [important]for one[/important] will be the first to welcome our new hydroplanetic cyberlizard overlords
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Basilisk (Score:3, Funny)
Basilisks are dangerous... (Score:2)
Because rooster eggs are so common? (Score:2)
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neat trick. (Score:3, Insightful)
where does a robot that walks on water succeed over an autonomous boat?
I mean, at least when they developed the technological equivalent of the geckos foot they had very sound commercial applications in mind. As robot amphibious platforms go this has just got to be inefficient and unreliable.
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It's amphibious (Score:2)
Watercross (Score:3, Insightful)
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Text (Score:2)
Indeed. The op-art red text on blue background is pretty retro as well. You just don't see much of the reverse, blinking magenta text on chartreuse background thing any more...thank God.
Re:neat trick. (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:neat trick. (Score:4, Funny)
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Tracking, recon, autonomous small package delivery. Medical supplies, information, bombs.
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An interesting question actually (Score:5, Insightful)
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which begs the question (Score:2)
Why does it go across water at all? Why not stay where it was born and raised, rather than pursue questionable gains across the pond? Scientists are so busy wondering whether they can get a robot to walk across water, that they forget to question whether the robot should.
Why did the robot cross the pond?
Tm
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"To get to the other side..."
That joke is NEVER getting stale
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At a sufficiently high speed water is about as solid as cement, so there is no limit to weight as long as you can make it hit the water fast/hard enough.
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I'm waiting for a R/C robostrider [mit.edu].
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My guess is that it's not too great with getting wet and keeping warm.
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Water snakes have no such problems, but well - maybe the lizard lives at cooler waters.
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I'm still waiting for the Car that runs on water (Score:1)
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Presumably our new water walking robot overlords won't need to be as waterproof?
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The more ambitious ones will want a beowulf cluster of robot maids.
Think about it: Robot maid clustering with high performance interconnects and NUMA[1]...
[1] Non Uniformed Maid Access?
Erm, shower time...
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Well, for starters, an autonomous boat can't walk on land.
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Sorry, just can't help myself.
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If you'd like to see it... (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhsxo7vY8ac [youtube.com]
Re:If you'd like to see it... (Score:4, Funny)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD0hN-96ypE [youtube.com]
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(Although my boss got very impressed for me being eligible for mod points in Slashdot...)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVVcWafi-MU
holy robot (Score:5, Funny)
VILLAGER:Bread!
VILLAGER:Apples!
VILLAGER:Uh, very small rocks!
VILLAGER:Mud!
VILLAGER:Uh, churches! Churches!
VILLAGER:Lead! Lead!
ARTHUR:A duck!
CROWD:Oooh.
BEDEVERE:Exactly. So, logically... if this robot float on water, then it is made of wood
Easy (Score:2)
I know why (Score:4, Funny)
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They can already walk, climb stairs, drive cars and there's the one who thinks humans taste like bacon.
I'm just hoping no one invents a robot that can climb trees or all that practice in my backyard will be for nothing.
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learning about the lizards (Score:5, Insightful)
It's all well and good, but... (Score:1)
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Been done. (Score:3, Funny)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-QBiBcK96Bs [youtube.com]
It had better sink.. (Score:1)
Pastafarianism (Score:1, Funny)
It will walk on water... (Score:1, Redundant)
More Importantly . . . (Score:2, Funny)
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Obligatory Futurama Quote (Score:4, Funny)
Fry: (to a robot at a Bot Mitzvah) So, you don't believe in Robot Jesus?
Jewish robot: We believe that he existed, and that he was a very well-built robot, but he was not our Messiah.
Yeah ... (Score:3, Funny)
... but can it turn it into wine?
At least we'll be too drunk to care when they get self-replication. I, for one, *hic* ...
Wow! (Score:1, Redundant)
here lizard lizard lizard (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/photos/2006-04-05/04 06plizard-a.jpg [pittsburghlive.com]
And another link:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_4 40639.html [pittsburghlive.com]
Robot wars... (Score:4, Funny)
Cheers!
AOL (Score:1)
Sweet Robot Jesus! (Score:1)
Hey! I already patented this... (Score:1)
Researchers Choose Name! (Score:1)
Wha? (Score:2)
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