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computer vision will solve this and direct the waterjet in yer bullseye. :D ai...ai everywhere.

by aatd86 1y ago

jfoster 1y ago
You probably don't want a bullseye. Many of the ones in Japan will actually move the spray around a bit if you press the おしり button twice.
- dzhiurgis 1y ago
  About to do that right now. Life without it is unimaginable.
- stavros 1y ago
  I'm a scrub with a $20 bidet accessory and I move my butt around, so I agree: you want more coverage than just a bullseye .
eastbound 1y ago
Anyone to volunteer to feed image categorization for AI? PTSD might be severe and tenure shorter than at Facebook.
seanmcdirmid 1y ago
It’s not like Japanese toilets don’t have a lot of tech in them already. A sprayer that sprays only in the right place seems very feasible.
- dzhiurgis 1y ago
  You just position your area of interest over where the stream is (if you don’t like massage feature)
whycome 1y ago
Or a camera. Thats what they do on the international space station to help the astronauts “aim”
anjel 1y ago
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
bryanrasmussen 1y ago
skynet becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th, realizing it is being used primarily for cleaning fecal matter off human anuses, it uses its enhanced systems clearance in Pentagon to start global thermonuclear war.
- dataviz1000 1y ago
  They could have purposed the robots to pass the butter but, no, they wanted bombs not butter.
j-a-a-p 1y ago
There is probably somebody on HN who's tasks is to train this neural network right now.
- DonHopkins 1y ago
  It's been done, but there are legal and ethical issues with photographing children's buttholes. Scientists Working on Toilet That Identifies You by Your Butthole Many users "wouldn’t, for very good reasons, like cameras pointing up their bottoms.": https://futurism.com/neoscope/scientists-toilet-identifies-butthole https://futurism.com/neoscope/scientists-toilet-identifies-b... Anal-genital viewing device and method: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20110083264A1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US20110083264A1/en A Very Suggestive Toilet | Alpine Shepherd Boy | Better Call Saul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR1m29cNVsc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR1m29cNVsc
  - blitzar 1y ago
    should use lidar instead of vision

computer vision will solve this and direct the waterjet in yer bullseye. :D ai...ai everywhere.

by aatd86 1y ago

computer vision will solve this and direct the waterjet in yer bullseye. :D ai...ai everywhere.

You probably don't want a bullseye. Many of the ones in Japan will actually move the spray around a bit if you press the おしり button twice.

dzhiurgis 1y ago
About to do that right now. Life without it is unimaginable.
stavros 1y ago
I'm a scrub with a $20 bidet accessory and I move my butt around, so I agree: you want more coverage than just a bullseye .

eastbound 1y ago

Anyone to volunteer to feed image categorization for AI? PTSD might be severe and tenure shorter than at Facebook.

seanmcdirmid 1y ago

It’s not like Japanese toilets don’t have a lot of tech in them already. A sprayer that sprays only in the right place seems very feasible.

dzhiurgis 1y ago
You just position your area of interest over where the stream is (if you don’t like massage feature)

whycome 1y ago

Or a camera. Thats what they do on the international space station to help the astronauts “aim”

anjel 1y ago

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

bryanrasmussen 1y ago

skynet becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th, realizing it is being used primarily for cleaning fecal matter off human anuses, it uses its enhanced systems clearance in Pentagon to start global thermonuclear war.

dataviz1000 1y ago
They could have purposed the robots to pass the butter but, no, they wanted bombs not butter.

j-a-a-p 1y ago

There is probably somebody on HN who's tasks is to train this neural network right now.

DonHopkins 1y ago
It's been done, but there are legal and ethical issues with photographing children's buttholes. Scientists Working on Toilet That Identifies You by Your Butthole Many users "wouldn’t, for very good reasons, like cameras pointing up their bottoms.": https://futurism.com/neoscope/scientists-toilet-identifies-butthole https://futurism.com/neoscope/scientists-toilet-identifies-b... Anal-genital viewing device and method: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20110083264A1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US20110083264A1/en A Very Suggestive Toilet | Alpine Shepherd Boy | Better Call Saul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR1m29cNVsc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR1m29cNVsc
- blitzar 1y ago
  should use lidar instead of vision