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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Flipside on April 03, 2012, 11:27:47 am

Title: I need your clothes, boots and your motorcycle....
Post by: Flipside on April 03, 2012, 11:27:47 am: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17585101

Robot designed with full humanoid skeletal structure....
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Post by: Colonol Dekker on April 03, 2012, 11:33:20 am: /me starts hoarding rations and stockpiling HME primary charges, black balaclavas, anti-material rounds, googles any likely military supercomputer contractors, removes name from phonebook for good measure.

I'm taking no facking chances.
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Post by: redsniper on April 03, 2012, 11:45:35 am: It's a FRAKKING CYLON!
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Post by: Flipside on April 03, 2012, 11:50:42 am: Heh, the single eye certainly does give that image to it ;) But the skeletal structure itself definitely made me think of Terminators first and Cylons second.
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Post by: NGTM-1R on April 03, 2012, 12:37:38 pm: CCCCCCCYYYYYYYBRRRRRIDDDDDDDDDSSSSSSSSSSS
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Post by: Colonol Dekker on April 03, 2012, 12:41:14 pm: Facking geth looking facker.

Cybrids, i fear and respect.
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Post by: Dark Hunter on April 03, 2012, 01:19:39 pm: Quote
The anthropomimetic robot, which has joints, bones, muscles and tendons will, according to Professor Owen Holland from the University of Sussex, bring us closer to true artificial intelligence.

Wait wait wait.

What? How does that even...?

*watches video*

Okay. "Physical form shapes thought." I can buy that.

Stupid journalists and their misleading phrasing of things. :doubt:
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Post by: Angelus on April 03, 2012, 01:21:57 pm: Soon ( as in DNF soon ^TM ), we'll be able to create Cylons.
And then it's only a small step to create skinjobs.
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Post by: SpardaSon21 on April 03, 2012, 01:25:14 pm: Geth>Cylons.
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Post by: StarSlayer on April 03, 2012, 01:26:50 pm: I think the quadrotors/manhacks, cheetah bots and transforming sphere stalker have more potential for human annihilation.
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Post by: Angelus on April 03, 2012, 01:44:57 pm: Quote from: SpardaSon21 on April 03, 2012, 01:25:14 pm
Geth>Cylons.
uh, no.
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Post by: BloodEagle on April 03, 2012, 08:01:38 pm: No love for AMEE?

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=red+planet+amee
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Post by: Unknown Target on April 09, 2012, 02:09:47 am: Is it just me or does it seem like the video got cut off?

Still cool, nevertheless.
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Post by: deathfun on April 09, 2012, 02:48:51 am: Very cool indeed
*prepares miniature EMP device*
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Post by: QuantumDelta on April 09, 2012, 05:25:17 am: Quote from: Angelus on April 03, 2012, 01:44:57 pm
Quote from: SpardaSon21 on April 03, 2012, 01:25:14 pm
Geth>Cylons.
uh, no.
Uh, yes.
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Post by: z64555 on April 13, 2012, 10:56:14 pm: Quote from: StarSlayer on April 03, 2012, 01:26:50 pm
I think the quadrotors/manhacks, cheetah bots and transforming sphere stalker have more potential for human annihilation.

SHHHH don't tell them that! :nervous:
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Post by: Mikes on April 14, 2012, 03:41:55 am: As he said "ohhh ohh it's squeezing back... "

... was anyone else thinking "no no, let go! not my arm! aaarAAAARGH!!" would be next? :) LOL.
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Post by: Mika on April 14, 2012, 05:29:15 am: I don't know, the creepiest thing to me is the eye with the automatic aperture control. That looked more like the one in Terminator 1 than anything else. This has something to do with both the uncanny valley and what we first see from a photograph of a person, that's usually the eyes.
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Post by: z64555 on April 16, 2012, 04:00:26 am: That's possibly the easiest control subsystem the thing has, just do some image processing on the retinal camera to determine the average brightness across pixels. Plug the brightness value into a PID or FLC algorithm, and then convert the output to a servo signal that controls the aperture.