remember Honda's Asimo? this isnt game related but its been bugging me. i saw an ad in a magazine promoting Asimo (which is a robot that serves or helps people) made by Honda. I also saw a commercial with the robot in it as well. supposedly this robot could do "hard" things. such as going up steps with its legs and not tripping, good grip to bring things to you... the ad said it was meant to be the "next member" of the family. and it could be a playmate for kids or a helper for old folk. i saw all this about 2 or 3 years ago, and have never heard of it since. Was it a hoax, gimmick, or did they can the project?? p.s. it looked like an astronaut a little bit. edit: found a pic, yet still confused.
Oh. i guess i need to watch g4tech more. (if thats where you saw it) that would be a cool piece to add to my collection. Asimo!! go kick those guys asses! terminator!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, and it cost about as much as a Bugatti so don't expect to get one any time soon. Also, it is controled by remote.
could it be used as a weapon? ASIMOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! GO KICK THOSE GUYS ASSES!!! the army of tomorrow. that'll learn them thar tarrarists!!! three foot deathmobile... j/k
robots will be better and better , they will go beyond our intelligence and act by their selves. they will try to kill their creator , us , like we have done with ''god'' , we will loose, and they will enclose us in a program, hiding us the truth that we are just a battery. oh... yeah, i know , i watch and read too much things about the matrix. :-D
Honda use Asimo on their TV adds all the time in Japan. I think it's pretty lame though just like Sony's robots. Sure Asimo can walk (Very slowly) but it can't communicate. NEC have been making this robot called Papero. This Robot is amazing. It can't walk, so it uses rollers (wheels) but it certainly makes up for that with many other features. It can talk !! The robot isn't capable of true thought like a human but it can hold a basic conversation with it's millions of built in words. It can even ask you questions. Another cool feature of Papero is that it can record your face making it recognize who you are and ask a question about your day. I read that NEC are now doing trails with these robots in Narita airport (Tokyo) as translators for English speaking guests. Oh, and it can control your TV or anything that uses inferred remote controls. NEC have a video on their site of this amazing robot. I think it was on the UK NEC site. The movie is in Japanese with English subtitles for the robot speaking parts with English language talking about who the robot goes about it's duties. Sorry that I can't provide a link because I lost it. You will need to do a bit of searching around NEC's site but it is there. Just type PAPERO in to the search box. Yakumo
i tought that robot was able to dance and comunicate with is body (when you say hello in front of him, it (or should i say he? ) will shake is hand ,...) oh , well, maybe i'm confuzed with another robot.
If an american company developed a bi-pedal robot, they would put it to military use. If a Japanese company developed a bi-pedal robot, they would put it to sexual pleasure use. :smt042
I wouldn't be surprised if we see the military come out with something like the ED-209 from the Robocop movies in the next fifteen years or so. I also think I'll see something similar to the mechs in Steel Battalion in the later part of my lifetime. If not sooner. What I really want though is one of the exoskeletons that DARPA is providing research funding for. Being able to run 70mph, jump twenty feet straight up, and being able to lift hundreds of pounds like nothing sounds good to me. The optic camouflage being developed in Tokyo would be nice option for it too.
I love Papero, I remember hearing about it back when it was still the R100 prototype. A true work of genius, I wait for the day they mass produce them and you can buy them. Here's the link for anyone who is interested. http://www.incx.nec.co.jp/robot/robotcenter_e.html
Got any more details on this? Last I heard (in Wired I think) they were saying it's impossible for the not-so-near future.
My uncle works for the army, at a pretty well known lab here in Mass. They apariently were working on optical camouflage as they were featured in National Geographic (2 years ago) for doing so
The army already has unmanned drones that do recon, kind of like remote control planes. Last year they even assinated a few terrorists in Afganistan with one of them- I still have the newspaper article. They shot a guy with one of theose ROV's with a machinegun attached to it, then the drone locked on and a nearby jet detroyed his SUV with a laser guided missile. So if you're talking about killer robots, they're already here. However these are just remote control drones, no A.I. to speak of. I did see a show about early US prototype unmanned drones that piolt themselves (also a ground model, which was essentially a small truck/battlebot lookin' thing with a heavy machine gun on it.) But I don't think the AI is advanced enough to be used in combat yet. Give it ten years or so. Check out the NBC (Nulcear Biological Chemical) suit here: http://www.futurehorizons.net/ also have hoverboards, lightsabers, and Jetpacks!
I read that article too. True optic camouflage at this point is impossible but this is a good start. http://projects.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/oc.html
