FriendFeed
StumbleUpon
Twitter
YouTube« Transformers vs. Avengers | Main | Animals as Nature and DARPA Intended Them »
A Robot Must Walk Before He Runs … Or Humps
By Great White Snark | March 1, 2007
Congratulations, Robot Dexter, I hear you’ve learned to walk, unassisted, by way of your built-in dynamic balance… a first for ambulatory robots. And apparently you’ll soon be able to run? Pretty impressive stuff. Especially when your brother Monty tries and fails to tip you over.
On the other hand, Dex, you’re the evolutionary equivalent of a human three-year-old. You still have so much to look forward to. Someday, when you start getting funny feelings in your robotic nether-regions when you look at a shiny mechanical devices, you’ll want to sit down with a wiser, more-experienced robot to have The Talk. And this is the robot you’ll want to talk to:
(NSFW, if you work with perverted robot fetishists.)
If you enjoyed this post, consider subscribing to Great White Snark by email or by RSS.
Topics: Technology, Toys | 1 Comment »
March 30th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
[...] Don’t you know that walking and humping is where it’s at in robotics today? What’s it like riding in the back of the robotic [...]