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Old McDonald had a robut...
« on: December 08, 2011, 11:45:09 AM »
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/11/mobile-farm-robots/
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Farmer’s little friend
The Harvest Automation robots are knee-high, wheeled machines. Each robot has a gripper for grasping pots, a deck for carrying pots, and an array of sensors to keep track of where it is and what’s around it. Teams of robots zip around nursery fields, single-mindedly spacing and grouping plants. Think Wall-E without the doe eyes and cuddly personality, or the little forest-tending ‘bots in the 1972 sci-fi classic Silent Running.
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Re: Old McDonald had a robut...
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2011, 11:53:33 AM »
Dagnabbit!

Crazy Moon Farmer: Stay away from my robot daughters!

Crushinator: But Paw I love him
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Re: Old McDonald had a robut...
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2011, 01:51:41 PM »
Ee - I - Ee - I - Oh!

Now that's stuck in my head.
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Re: Old McDonald had a robut...
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2011, 08:44:28 PM »
Quote from: Mr. Analog on December 08, 2011, 11:53:33 AM
Crushinator: But Paw I love him

"shut up, baby! i know it!" /bender




PS: Google image search for ^ found me this ... and I gotta admit some of these "if it was a film" casting suggestions = bang on.
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/FortressOfAwesomeness/news/?a=38509
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Re: Old McDonald had a robut...
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2011, 06:28:38 AM »
Haha, those were great matches I'd say
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Re: Old McDonald had a robut...
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2011, 04:02:25 PM »
moar robuts...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhVu2hxm07E
^ not pre-scripted? chew on that, SIRI!



Hey, robut lady* @ 2:47, don't cry... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AGgUYUl4qE



"dammit, im in that weird part of youtube again..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwXX9LmSDg





*(who looks strangely a bit like River Tam)
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Re: Old McDonald had a robut...
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2011, 07:56:33 AM »
I don't think I'll be able to sleep for a week!
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Re: Old McDonald had a robut...
« Reply #7 on: December 11, 2011, 12:04:28 AM »
Quote from: Mr. Analog on December 10, 2011, 07:56:33 AM
I don't think I'll be able to sleep for a week!

visit http://ja.twitter.com/geminoidreal and http://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/hiroshi+ishiguro and  YT videos with him and his robot likeness and maybe it'll be more like a month...

http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/humanoids/hiroshi-ishiguro-the-man-who-made-a-copy-of-himself/0 "to learn better about what it means to be human, I made a robot copy of myself" :sigh:
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Re: Old McDonald had a robut...
« Reply #8 on: December 14, 2011, 11:27:16 AM »
"scarier than Jaws: We don't have to go in the water, but we all have to use gadgets"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robopocalypse
(a film version is coming soon, apparently)

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Re: Old McDonald had a robut...
« Reply #9 on: December 14, 2011, 11:43:46 AM »
Groan

Or you could just watch Westworld
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Re: Old McDonald had a robut...
« Reply #10 on: December 14, 2011, 11:53:21 AM »
Quote from: Mr. Analog on December 14, 2011, 11:43:46 AM
Groan

Or you could just watch Westworld

...but... but, I saw someone READING this book on the train this morning! So it must be "popular"!!!
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Re: Old McDonald had a robut...
« Reply #11 on: December 14, 2011, 12:18:28 PM »
This thread is starting to make less sense to me...  Westworld?
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Re: Old McDonald had a robut...
« Reply #12 on: December 14, 2011, 01:02:09 PM »
1973 sci-fi flick about robots that gain sentience and start a-killin'

The setting is a futuristic holiday spot where people can live out fantasies, one of which is Old West themed.

Of course sentient robots taking over the role of humans goes back extremely far in film, Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) has a robot taking over the role of a protest leader for example. But really the idea of humans being replaced by inhuman doppelgänger goes back even further through legends and stories (like the doppelgänger for one)
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Re: Old McDonald had a robut...
« Reply #13 on: December 14, 2011, 05:35:36 PM »
amazingly, the flick is not based on a book ... unlike is virtually every creative idea in scifi filmdom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westworld

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Re: Old McDonald had a robut...
« Reply #14 on: December 14, 2011, 05:52:03 PM »
Oh, and that ties into the OP's subject of robots and the organically-expanded subject of robots taking over the world.  Got it.
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Re: Old McDonald had a robut...
« Reply #15 on: December 14, 2011, 09:28:27 PM »
Well h'yeah, sort of a catch all

Robots->Creepy Robots->Take over the world Robots!
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Re: Old McDonald had a robut...
« Reply #16 on: December 15, 2011, 12:32:01 AM »
Quote from: Thorin on December 14, 2011, 05:52:03 PM
Oh, and that ties into the OP's subject of robots and the organically-expanded subject of robots taking over the world.  Got it.

another quoted review excerpt for Robopocalpyse:
"Futurists are already predicting the day mankind builds its replacement, Artificial Intelligence. Daniel Wilson shows what might happen when that computer realizes its creators are no longer needed."

Yeah, our time is short as Head Honchos O' The Planet, methinks.
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Re: Old McDonald had a robut...
« Reply #17 on: December 15, 2011, 06:30:39 AM »
I highly doubt it, fiction like this preys on a deep rooted human trait: paranoia. Entertaining stories though!
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Re: Old McDonald had a robut...
« Reply #18 on: December 15, 2011, 06:13:00 PM »
Well, I for one...








































... think you're right, it's just a fun genre of entertainment ;)
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Re: Old McDonald had a robut...
« Reply #19 on: December 16, 2011, 06:54:52 AM »
LOL!
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Re: Old McDonald had a robut...
« Reply #20 on: May 09, 2012, 05:03:49 PM »
Quote from: Darren Dirt on December 15, 2011, 12:32:01 AM
Quote from: Thorin on December 14, 2011, 05:52:03 PM
Oh, and that ties into the OP's subject of robots and the organically-expanded subject of robots taking over the world.  Got it.

another quoted review excerpt for Robopocalpyse:
"Futurists are already predicting the day mankind builds its replacement, Artificial Intelligence. Daniel Wilson shows what might happen when that computer realizes its creators are no longer needed."

Yeah, our time is short as Head Honchos O' The Planet, methinks.


Daniel H. Wilson, author of Robopocalypse, has a PhD in robotics ... so he knows how to survive* an uprising!
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/05/08/robopocalypse_author_daniel_h_wilson_s_robot_uprising_survival_guide_video_.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G3RoBHMu-o

obvious tip #1: don't waste ammo on resistant targets, go for the eyes (sensors) !



*cool animations though -- surprisingly bloody!
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