Martial Arts Robots

curmudgeous writes "Japanese tech firms are making waves with robots trained to perform martial arts moves." On one hand, this is largely just a novelty, but on the other, robots capable of doing these moves are many steps closer to being able to move around in real world environments. But mostly, sumo stomping robots look cool.

Re:Pictures are fine, but...

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Here's another post, you need to fix the extra space in the link.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=82123&cid=7201 363 [slashdot.org]

Re:how soon until

[ClockworkPlanet]

Common misconception. Geishas are not whores, far from it.

Re:I for one...

[quintinie]

They might be better off dragging heavy chains covered in hooks across minefields or something.

Motorised de-mining flail:

clearance 15000 m2 per day

mines removed 90%

cost 350 000 US$

http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/minerats/hackers 96/sld015.html

this is so depressing...