Robots Ride Camels in Kuwait 50
naken writes to tell us that Kuwait recently held its first regional camel race using robot jockeys. The change was made after human rights groups got child jockeys banned in Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE."
That's one small step for man... (Score:1)
They got it wrong... (Score:5, Funny)
Great. If I'm under four and know how to ride a camel better than anyone else, I can't race. My rights have been infringed to protect human rights. Way to go, guys.
Re:They got it wrong... (Score:5, Informative)
That was a horrible practice.
Re:They got it wrong... (Score:1)
Perhaps they could have had more stringent entry requirements and proper inspections going on rather than banning the sport entirly.
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Human rights? (Score:1)
Re:Human rights? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Human rights? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Human rights? (Score:3, Informative)
Particularly if they use electric shocks on kids if they don't do their work properly.
Re:Human rights? (Score:2)
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Re:Human rights? (Score:3, Insightful)
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Re:Human rights? (Score:2)
In the US children ride horses on weekends for fun.
Somehow I doubt the kids were being tortured, although their parents might have been the soccer-mom equivalents of Kuwait.
The severe beatings that some of the children endure certainly do qualify as torture.
I don't know if you're a troll or just ignorant, but these children were being mistreated.
LK
Re:Dog-riding robots (Score:2)
How odd... (Score:1)
Maybe I'm just losing it...
...though some would argue I never had it in the first place.
Re:How odd... (Score:4, Informative)
You probably have seen it before, it's a dupe [slashdot.org].
Re:How odd... (Score:4, Insightful)
Ladies and gentlemen, uh, we've just gone off topic, but what you've read so far speaks for itself. The innocent discussion has apparently been taken over - 'conquered' if you will - by an inferior race of photographic-memory slashdotters. It's difficult to tell at the moment whether they will troll the entire website or merely flame it.
I am certainly not surprised: the prior article was in April last year; dupes will inevitably be here. And I, for one, will never welcome our photographic-memory overlords. I'd like to remind our editors that as an average slashdotter with common sense, I can be helpful in rounding up other idiots to languish in the off topic viewing range.
Re:How odd... (Score:2)
At least we know CNN has someone reading Technocrat.net [technocrat.net] looking for story ideas.
Yes, but... (Score:1)
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Wired News has an article about this... (Score:4, Informative)
Genderbots? (Score:1)
Why? Do they really need that much emulated gender anatomy? Just make them shaped like "small kids".
Re:Genderbots? (Score:2)
Okay, just kidding.
They're shaped like small 'boys', because camel jockeys have always been boys.
Bonus Fact: The camels wouldn't accept the robotic jockeys until they had been shaped in a vaguely human fashion.
Re:Genderbots? (Score:2)
Re:Genderbots? (Score:2)
Because it's Kuwait you dumb ass. In some parts of the world, gender still plays a big part in what role you fill in society.
LK
The real reason they're boys... (Score:3, Funny)
Better Article on same topic.... (Score:2)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/robotics/2005-0
I remember it because I thought it was so bizzare, and because I had no idea there was a black market in young boys who were good camel jockeys. Weird.
I split (Score:3, Funny)
Tiny robots on robot dogs would be cool. Damn, I feel like dropping a tab or two.
No laughing matter (Score:2, Informative)
Their grant applications, notably to the European Union, go into all the sordid details about trafficking in children. In Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, tens of thousa
Great headline (Score:1)
In Soviet Russia, Camel rides you.
In Korea, only old robots ride camels.
In Planet of the Clams, lobster is slave to clam...