Be looking for those out at the dog track soon.  Quiet things aren't they?

Fled wrote:

http://i.imgur.com/K4mWF2n.gif

Who HASN'T been that drunk?

SilverSmythe2 wrote:

http://www.iflscience.com/technology/meet-motobot-yamahas-motocycle-riding-robot

Tron is that you?

I read this in one of those information books the other day.  Copyright 2006, so missing a decade of new firsts.

FORGOTTEN FIRSTS IN ROBOT HISTORY

1927: "Maria", a female robot, appears in Fritz Lang's science-fiction movie Metropolis.  It's the first ever on-screen robot.

1940: Isaac Asimov publishes "Robbie" in Super Science Stories, the first piece of robot-themed fiction.

1954: George Devol receives the first patent for a robot.  Five years later, his Unimate, a robotic arm, is installed at a General Motors plant in New Jersey. It moves pieces of hot metal from a die-casting machine.

1966: Shakey, developed by the Stanford Research Institute, becomes the first robot that can actually react to its surroundings.  Using "reason" it can identify and move small objects.

1968: "Humanoid Boogie" by the British group Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band is released, make it the first pop song about robots.

1969: A remote controlled robot washes the windows of the Tower of the Americas in San Antonio, TX.

1983: "Robot Redford" becomes the first robot to deliver a commencement address when it speaks to the graduating class at Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland.

1984: A robot named "Rebecca" runs for President of the United States as an Independent.  Her supporters say she's eligible because she was "born' in Maryland. (Ed: pretty sure "she" would not meet the age requirement anyway)

2006: A team at Carnegie Mellon University creates "McBlare" the first robot bagpipe player. (Was that really necessary?)

Emmeran wrote:

Baywolfe wrote:

2006: A team at Carnegie Mellon University creates "McBlare" the first robot bagpipe player. (Was that really necessary?)

Ab-So-Fucking-Lutly!!

Well, that was the book's comment.  Mine would have been, "what a pathetic bunch of losers".

And that's probably how the grunts will use them.

Emmeran wrote:

No job is safe.

Cool, or warm seasonally adjusting, self cleaning windows! Best part seems the ability to retrofit old relics. The windows of my old farm house home in Providence were mass produced a mile or so away in Pawtucket during the 1840s in the first factory of its kind and were still more than sash weight serviceable. Once upon a time, the thought of rubbishing them with plastic crap gave me the creeps.

Been nice working with you

http://i.imgur.com/Ss3h5KQ.gifv

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Next they are going to want $15 an hour to stack boxes.

But why so hung up on 2 legged locomotion?

George Orr wrote:

Fled wrote:

This one is amazing.

Link to YouTube page

Jesus Christ, to see it stumble and recover like that...It's astonishing and wonderful and also really goddamn creepy.

The next generation will be programmed to shove a hockey stick up a guy's ass.

I was unable to find a non-bleepy video but this one's still pretty funny.

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Auto-edited on 2020-08-02 to update URLs

Now there really is no need to ever get off the couch. Even Choad's victory garden activities are to be made obselete.

Johnny_Rotten wrote:

Now there really is no need to ever get off the couch. Even Choad's victory garden activities are to be made obselete.

Marketing at its best:  Understand a person's/company's pain and sell them a workable solution.

Marketing at its worst:  Invent a problem and sell the solution.

nfidelbastard wrote:

300 Pound Mall Robot Runs Over Toddler

What a stupid fucking idea.

Seagulls

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Emmeran wrote:

Seagulls

Brilliant!

Emmeran wrote:

Death by warehouse robot.  Now where will the lower caste work?   

(Don't forget the delivery drones.)

Adapt or die, 20th-Century piggies.