RL Terminators 600 Series?

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2006-10-08 02:37am

Wanna see something really creepy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ak3coBKBC0

Vaporous · Post by **Vaporous** » 2006-10-08 03:08am

Scary and arousing.

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2006-10-08 03:11am

Can it walk around? If not, then so what? It's a Chuck E. Cheese display.

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » 2006-10-08 04:58am

Probably not. Honda and Waseda University have been trying to implement human style walking on a robot for ages and they still have huge issues regarding static and dynamic equilibriums. That's why the current series of robots out walk slowly. The actuators in the robots just can't respond fast enough to compensate for imbalances.

Big Orange · Post by **Big Orange** » 2006-10-08 08:19am

Hmmm, nothing more than a clever animatronic. Maybe wait several more centuries until we get real androids.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2006-10-08 12:02pm

actress droid in what? it can't move enven enough to do a very basic play.so they made the world's largest teddy ruxbin.

Molyneux · Post by **Molyneux** » 2006-10-08 12:10pm

Big Orange wrote:Hmmm, nothing more than a clever animatronic. Maybe wait several more centuries until we get real androids.

We could have 'em inside of thirty, maybe forty years if we actually put a good chunk of money towards developing them.

But everyone knows that buying guns and bigger bombs are more important, of course.

TheMuffinKing · Post by **TheMuffinKing** » 2006-10-08 02:22pm

Molyneux wrote:
Big Orange wrote:Hmmm, nothing more than a clever animatronic. Maybe wait several more centuries until we get real androids.
We could have 'em inside of thirty, maybe forty years if we actually put a good chunk of money towards developing them.

But everyone knows that buying guns and bigger bombs are more important, of course.

Yeah, but those guns and bombs are to equip our robot legions!

Big Orange · Post by **Big Orange** » 2006-10-08 02:58pm

I doubt we would get androids within a relatively brief time period of three decades, since we need to polish up the AI and we need an AI processor with human level intelligence or self awareness (which could take over a century).

Bertie Wooster · Post by **Bertie Wooster** » 2006-10-08 05:37pm

There was a movie from the '80's called "Cherry 2000" which had similar-looking fembots that were used as wives.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2006-10-08 06:47pm

Yes, the Japanese are fucked up. Tell us something we don't know...

Molyneux · Post by **Molyneux** » 2006-10-08 06:54pm

Big Orange wrote:I doubt we would get androids within a relatively brief time period of three decades, since we need to polish up the AI and we need an AI processor with human level intelligence or self awareness (which could take over a century).

I was considering the problem of robotic bodies capable of human-like movement, to the same degree that the standard human body is. They could be remote-controlled, for all I care, but we could most definitely have a robot that could walk, run, jump and swim like a human within 30 years if we put a worthwhile amount of research money into it.

ThatGuyFromThatPlace · Post by **ThatGuyFromThatPlace** » 2006-10-08 10:37pm

One of my firends interns at a company that the faces for a lot of these robots (notably the recent Korean Einstein Robot) who has a video of this frickin amazing Robotic Geissha dancer, I'll have to get the link from him next time I see him but except for the hands it's almost unreal.

Big Orange · Post by **Big Orange** » 2006-10-11 06:22am

Molyneux wrote:
Big Orange wrote:I doubt we would get androids within a relatively brief time period of three decades, since we need to polish up the AI and we need an AI processor with human level intelligence or self awareness (which could take over a century).
I was considering the problem of robotic bodies capable of human-like movement, to the same degree that the standard human body is. They could be remote-controlled, for all I care, but we could most definitely have a robot that could walk, run, jump and swim like a human within 30 years if we put a worthwhile amount of research money into it.

I imagine the near future androids being "remote controlled" would mean there is a guy wearing a motion capture jumpsuit linked up to a fully functioning humanoid robot. They could this control system very advanced by not having coils of wires everywhere and the human can experience what the android is experiencing through advanced VR input or something.