GooberMcNutly wrote:

Flippy, the burger-flipping robot that threatens to supplant short-order cooks, is on its first extended break.

If he can't talk shit to me he's not a Short-order cook.  I require attitude with my food, if I want silence I'll stay at home and do it myself.

Feature coming to a robot near you

GooberMcNutly wrote:

Emmeran wrote:

Feature coming to a robot near you

Oh, putting a jet on the side of your motorcycle, but when I put one on the back, the cops get all snooty about it....

If they got a chance to be snooty you just didn't use a big enough jet engine.

The real threat of Robots

Can your torpedo do this?

Emmeran wrote:

London meltdown.

Cash?  What is cash?

I never carry it.  Not sure how the muggers in NYC are coping with this, although, the ultra Liberals probably still carry their "mugging money".

Carnival Cruise lines has used electronic poker tables on the their cruise ships for years.  No dealer mistakes, no chips needed, and no tipping either.  I expect these to replace many of the low-end cardrooms in casinos all over America soon.

Robotic melon slapper wins $30,000.

Unless M$ bought a company already competently doing this, it will be shit.

Emmeran wrote:

Baywolfe wrote:

Unless M$ bought a company already competently doing this, it will be shit.

Not to get off topic but the Surface Table, the Surface Pro and the Surface Laptop are still the best products on the market and let's not forget their keyboards and mice either.

This thing is a far cry from silliness of Google Glasses or the Apple swatch.

F-Apple period.  I give my granddaughter shit all the time about what a sheep she is.  I like Azio keyboards and Logitech mice.  M$ peripherals are fine, they're the Chevrolet Impalas of the electronics world, they'll run and run while they slowly fall apart.  I've never had any experience with the Surface products.  They're manufactured by Pegatron, a Chinese company I know nothing about.

The machines just acquired a taste for blood!

Factory robot malfunctions and impales worker with 10 foot-long steel spikes

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Platymingo wrote:

"Factory robot malfunctions and impales worker with 10 foot-long steel spikes"

I hate this headline.  If you don't catch the dash in in foot-long, it makes it sound like the robot sought him out and stabbed him with 10' long spikes.

Yeah, also it fell on him.  It would be like saying "Building malfunctions and crushes worker".

choad wrote:

https://cruelery.com/sidepic/robosmoke.png

~ Click to meet Boris ~

NPR's report was short of calling it a "Potemkin robot"

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

Baywolfe wrote:

Just carrying on a long tradition that goes back to around the turn of the 20th century

Earlier. The Turk, now a generic term, is probably the world's best known confidence game, followed closely by The Spanish Prisoner.

choad wrote:

Baywolfe wrote:

Just carrying on a long tradition that goes back to around the turn of the 20th century

Earlier. The Turk, now a generic term, is probably the world's best known confidence game, followed closely by The Spanish Prisoner.

Thanks, I was too lazy to look those up and their names have long been purged from my memory.

Add Elon Musk's name to those people we're going to have to kill eventually before they destroy humanity.

I'll take one Hedy Lamar, please.

The Porn industry has always been early adopters of the latest and greatest technology. 

I've read Sci-Fi stories that covered this subject where people retire by getting plugged into the Matrix and you can live the rest of your life with any fantasies you want.  It usually ends tragically.

The real game changer...if you've been paying attention/find CNN has any remaining credibility. Uh-oh...might be time to ditch thoz cryptoz fellaz.