Robots Take To the Stairs 85
Singularity Hub writes "Robots can climb stairs, and they are doing it everywhere you look. 'No big deal' you say, but it really is a big deal. Five to ten years ago, almost nobody was doing it. Now grad students are doing it all by themselves for thesis projects. Check out our review of robots navigating stairs, which includes some awesome videos."
Daleks (Score:3, Funny)
What about Daleks?
Re:Just watch out for the ones at the top. (Score:5, Funny)
That would be the pusher robot. He is malfunctioning. Trust the shover robot; he will protect you from the terrible secret of space. Do you have stairs in your house?
Re:Daleks (Score:5, Funny)
As seen on some slashdotter's sig:
This confused me, as well . . . (Score:3, Funny)
. . . I thought that we were going to build an *elevator* to the moon, and would need robot elevator riders to make the trip.
I guess the NASA pundits for the *stairway* to the moon won out, and so we will need robot stair climbers . . . real soon.
PER ASPERA AD ESCALA (Score:5, Funny)
"A Rough Road Leads to the Stairs".
ED-209 is not impressed (Score:5, Funny)
You have 30 seconds to comply.
Summary wording (Score:5, Funny)
"Now grad students are doing it all by themselves for thesis projects."
As a grad student, I found the wording of the summary amusing. I can confirm that yes, we can climb stairs if need be. The elevators in my CS building go out about once every two weeks for instance. (Wasn't that long ago that the motor in one of the shafts caught fire and shut down that shaft for over a week. During which the other shaft broke down too for a short time.)
Of course, the real advance will be when robots follow in our paths and learn to take the elevator when one is available.
Re:Robots are protected. (Score:5, Funny)
But if robots can climb stairs, are those of us with stairs in our house still protected?
Re:I must have misread this (Score:5, Funny)
But then it'd take forever for the robot to get the slippers to you!