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Comments: 35 +- Hardware: Robo-Chefs and Fashion-Bots On Show In Tokyo on Friday November 27, @04:50AM
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avishere writes "The International Robot Exhibition kicked off this week in Tokyo, unveiling the latest whirring and buzzing inventions from 192 companies and 64 organizations from at home and abroad — and bringing humanity another step closer to irrelevance. Among the humanoid cavalcade was a prototype robo-chef, showing off its cooking and cutting skills, along with robots to play with your children, model clothes, and search for disaster victims. There was also one made almost exclusively of cardboard. The exhibition — which opened with a human-like robot called Nextage cutting the ribbon — runs until Saturday."
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Poor good doctor... (Score:1)
There must be... (Score:1)
Robotic games (Score:3, Informative)
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I'm really not trying to be too negative, the robot itself doesn't seem bad... but they don't really show any of that autonomous navigation they claim and what they do show is an uninteresting looking on-line game and a few remote-control games that have been
Most disturbing robot (Score:2)
This one gives me the horrors [pinktentacle.com]. Its something about they way she is flicking her left finger. I wonder what it is for?
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Re:Most disturbing robot (Score:4, Funny)
GP:
[pinktentacle.com]. Its something about they way she is flicking her left finger. I wonder what it is for?
PP:
I'm more curious as to what those mammaries are for.
Those are the robot's eyes. Scientists have found that men will make better eye contact with the robot that way, which facilitates reading their facial expressions.
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Well, it says “RAMeX”, so my guess is that it’s a machine that cuts your dick off when you “ram” her. :P
Yes, I will go out tonight, don’t worry! ^^
Re:Most disturbing robot (Score:4, Interesting)
It's a tradition in Robotmaking - viz Maria from Metropolis. [harrr.org]
Men build sexually arousing robots - mythologically it goes back to Pygmalion and Galatea [wikipedia.org].
When men pretend to be robots [youtube.com], it just comes off as ridiculous.
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Obligatory... (Score:1)
Do not confuse (Score:2)
Not the best choice of sentence structure there.
Re:Do not confuse (Score:4, Funny)
Not the best choice of sentence structure there.
Its a good idea to be wary of AIs with built in process optimisation.
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You just program it to identify meat for cutting and cooking as meat that isn't moving. That should solve the problem.
So only cook sleeping children?
Bummer! (Score:2, Funny)
The robo-chef doesn't wear a chef hat.
192 companies and 64 organisations (Score:1)
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do they choose these numbers for a reason?
Robots would. Just like we would choose 100 companies and 10 organisations.
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Square hall with 16x16 booths grid, 1/4 for organizations?
Oblig (Score:1)
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I summon Iron Chef...Pancake? (Score:2)
"The Iron Chef made five dishes, but they're all pancakes."
Can the Robochef say with sincerity (Score:2)
That's all nice (Score:2)
but do they feature Lotus Notes and a machine gun?
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but do they feature Lotus Notes...
Oh god I hope not.
Since the Japanese won't reproduce themselves... (Score:1)
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...or allow any immigration (even of overseas ethnic Japanese) this about the only way that they can survive the population loss. Funny and sad at the same time.
They could add to their population the old-fashioned way..
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The reduction of the population will increase the living standard of the remaining Japanese, and the investment into robotics and automation will make the transition to a smaller population easier while keeping the country on the cutting edge of technology.
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Robot Chef (Score:2)
I expect that in practice the robots at the show were almost as sophisticated.
Robot made of cardboard? (Score:1)