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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Inquisitor on January 17, 2009, 06:45:12 am

Title: Boy meets robot
Post by: Inquisitor on January 17, 2009, 06:45:12 am

We introduced my son to his future masters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUdhBWti4Dc

Ot maybe it will be the other way around.

He curiously reacts the same way towards robots as he does towards puppies... Go figure.

Title: Re: Boy meets robot
Post by: Snail on January 17, 2009, 06:47:40 am

That's a retarded robot.

Did you make it yourself?

Title: Re: Boy meets robot
Post by: Flipside on January 17, 2009, 06:58:40 am

LOL @ Video

Cute kid! Give it a couple of years and he'll be taking it apart to see how it works ;)

Title: Re: Boy meets robot
Post by: Inquisitor on January 17, 2009, 07:11:17 am

Its a commercial vaccuum cleaner robot. Roomba, older model. Its actually an elegant robot, fills its function effectively.

Title: Re: Boy meets robot
Post by: Bob-san on January 17, 2009, 04:10:13 pm

Quote from: Inquisitor on January 17, 2009, 07:11:17 am

Its a commercial vaccuum cleaner robot. Roomba, older model. Its actually an elegant robot, fills its function effectively.

I'd be worried about having the bottom 3" of everything very scuffed up.

Title: Re: Boy meets robot
Post by: Inquisitor on January 17, 2009, 08:37:42 pm

Not really an issue :)

Title: Re: Boy meets robot
Post by: Dark RevenantX on January 17, 2009, 11:19:24 pm

The thread ad makes me smile.

[attachment stolen by Slimey Goober]

Title: Re: Boy meets robot
Post by: Bobboau on January 19, 2009, 04:39:34 am

I had to program one of those things for an AI class, was alright until I was forced to implement a multithreaded behavioral architecture on it without any sort of proper semaphore/mutex support.