Feral Robot Dogs 136
stinkypig sent in a blurb about Feral Robot Dogs, assorted modifications of the commercial AIBO dogs to be "more useful". For various definitions of useful. See also a discussion on smartmobs.com.
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Feral Robot Dogs
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Happiness is twin floppies.
Yes! (Score:2, Funny)
Screw Dyno-Mutt! (Score:0, Funny)
You Have Failed In Your Mission (Score:-1, Funny)
Yay! (Score:-1, Funny)
Will this mean I have Feral Robot Dog turd to clean off the carpet when I get home after work?
Opps! (Score:2, Funny)
Well yeah (Score:5, Funny)
... It's about time someone did something useful with these things.
A local newsagent is selling a series of these horrid mags with a bit of a robot on the cover, collect them all and build it, sort of a thing. I can just imagine how proud I'd be to watch my lad's robot savage the postie ...
What department is this? (Score:3, Funny)
Feral NanoDogs (Score:2, Funny)
Of course, the waste may be hazardous... or at least nanosmelly. I definitely want a pack of NanoDobermans protecting me from the other nanobots.
hmmm, I feel a rock band coming on...
laser beams? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah baby!
Alan.
Interesting to see exploration of behaviour.... (Score:5, Funny)
On a more serious note - it's always interesting to see explorations of behaviour in robotics (since future robots used for autonomous exploration of planetary surfaces and such will likely need different programming than the traditional robot (many of which would actually be closer to teleoperated machines than robots as they rely on human instruction for just about everything.
It reminds me to some degree of some sci-fi stories exploring AI and von neumann type machines interacting in such a way to create robotic "evolution". Which makes you further wonder - one day could obsolete robots be considered endangered species? (Look over there... it's one of the last VIC-20's left in the wild!)
Not their heads. (Score:4, Funny)
You put the laser in the dog's nose [bbc.co.uk].
Yeah but can it?! (Score:2, Funny)
since that other site "contains 'artsy' stuff, and doesn't include technical tidbits."
I wanna know if I can make it give me back rubs...
and no I don't want to talk about the implications or the websites and spam that would be sent out!
"Hot Young Aibo Bestiality Sensual Massage Pics In Your E-mail Everyday!"
Hmmm maybe theres a Niche Market there somewhere
1.?
2.Profit!!!
Federal? (Score:1, Funny)
Seriously, I was starting to wonder about the airports.
Re:Get a real dog (Score:0, Funny)
I KNEW IT!! (Score:1, Funny)
Angry Fish (Score:5, Funny)
Yipes! (Score:3, Funny)
Will the madness never end?
Re:Not their heads. (Score:2, Funny)
ON vs IN are two very different things.
As George Carlin said, "You can get ON the plane, I'M going to get IN the plane!"
What next? (Score:4, Funny)
Federal Robot Dogs? (Score:2, Funny)
I read Federal Robot Dogs at first and immediately a picture of Janet Reno [store44.com] popped into my head.
(shudders)
New web censorship counter measures.... (Score:3, Funny)
"We have an order to shut down that grotesque web server. Where is it!"
"In the killer robot... over there. I forgot the password, you'll have to shut him down manually."
"Grrrrrrrrrrrr"
"Nice doggie..."
Re:What next? (Score:3, Funny)
Have mercy! Us geeks have enough competition already without creating more!
I'll get a real dog... (Score:2, Funny)
me any shit when I mod the thing.
Re:What's with AIBO and DCMA? (Score:3, Funny)
Uh, toss me a verb. "does not mind people modding their robot dog?" "does not want people modding their robot dog?" "does not kill people modding their robot dog?"
Eyes in the back of their WHAT? (Score:2, Funny)
An emblematic feature of the adapted dogs is placement of the webcams in the non-barking end of the dogs
Evolution in action... (Score:4, Funny)
2. Humans domesticate wild dogs.
3. Humans create domesticated robotic dogs
4. Robotic dogs go wild
5. Wild robotic dogs tame humans???
Obligatory Snow Crash Quote (Score:3, Funny)
-Y.T., Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
Obligatory (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Evolution in action... (Score:4, Funny)
Or just wait for the explosive collar mod.
Re:What's with AIBO and DCMA? (Score:2, Funny)
"Sony does not _____ people modding their robot dog."
Pick whatever you like!