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A review of the best robots of 2009
- limist 17y agoThe video of the Quattro s650, claimed as the world's fastest packing/sorting robot, is particularly impressive as it handles a surprisingly large variety of objects.
- statictype 17y agoAt the risk of beating a dead horse, I think we could be making much more advances in robotics if we dispense of the notion that robots should be bipedal and look like humans.
- asdflkj 17y agoAlmost all robots doing work today look nothing like humans. The neat thing about humanoidness is that it provides a benchmark for robotic technology that any technically-minded person can understand.
- limist 17y agoThis article's closing text also references the intriguing term describing our emotional/psychological response range to humanoid robots, the Uncanny Valley: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley I'm now curious of my own reaction if had a life-life robot right in front of me. There's a great line from the movie A.I. where Gigolo Joe's character (a robot) asks rhetorically, "Do you know why they hate us? It's because they made us too smart, and immortal."
- ramchip 17y ago> The dry adhesive technique uses micro-hairs and intramolecular (van der waals) forces to stick bot to wall. It doesn't change the article much, but something went wrong there. Journalists, check what the keywords mean!