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Posted by Ren on September 18, 2006, 7:46 am
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You make those new Manoi kits upgradeable the way desktop computers
are. You then have a place in the middle of the manoi for a
pda/cellphone making it useful. Then you get latex, the kind they use
to make the novelty real dolls and you come up with different anime
themes and costumes to clothe your Manoi skeleton.
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Posted by J.A. Legris on September 18, 2006, 9:17 am
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Ren wrote:
> You make those new Manoi kits upgradeable the way desktop computers
> are. You then have a place in the middle of the manoi for a
> pda/cellphone making it useful. Then you get latex, the kind they use
> to make the novelty real dolls and you come up with different anime
> themes and costumes to clothe your Manoi skeleton.
Did you mean rocket, or torpedo?
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Joe Legris
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Posted by on September 19, 2006, 3:12 am
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>Ren wrote:
>> <snip> Then you get latex, the kind they use
>> to make the novelty real dolls and you come up with different anime
>> themes and costumes to clothe your Manoi skeleton.
>
>Did you mean rocket, or torpedo?
Well said! :-)
I've never understood why some people want robots that look
like humans. I want one that looks and functions like a ROBOT.
If you want something warm soft & female, wearing japanese
school girl's uniform... move out of your parent's basement and
maybe you'll meet one.
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Men never do evil so completely or cheerfully as when they
do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal
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Posted by Tarkin on September 19, 2006, 5:43 pm
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osama@cave.mil wrote:
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> >Ren wrote:
> >> <snip> Then you get latex, the kind they use
> >> to make the novelty real dolls and you come up with different anime
> >> themes and costumes to clothe your Manoi skeleton.
> >
> >Did you mean rocket, or torpedo?
>
> Well said! :-)
>
> I've never understood why some people want robots that look
> like humans. I want one that looks and functions like a ROBOT.
>
Like a character out of RUR? They were vaguely humanoid...
or more like....a pick-and-place robot? Could be aesthetically
pleasing I suppose....or like the Mars Rover?
Perhaps you are of the school that believes form follows function.
I know I do- excessive decoration tends to turn me off. An MP-5
looks deadly because it *is* deadly.
However, this person is expressing an idea that he believes has
some sort of potential; most likely commercial success. And
he might not be wrong. There are large numbers of people, websites,
and companies that are heavily drawn to the concept of humanoid
automata and robots. Are they wrong? Is Rodney Brooks a dolt?
www.ai.mit.edu/projects/humanoid-robotics-group/
I guess your reaction os a manifestation of 'technological racism':
www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000675.htm
Just my 2 pennies. So what *is* a Manoi, anyway?
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Posted by dan michaels on September 19, 2006, 7:36 pm
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Tarkin wrote:
> osama@cave.mil wrote:
> >
> > >Ren wrote:
> > >> <snip> Then you get latex, the kind they use
> > >> to make the novelty real dolls and you come up with different anime
> > >> themes and costumes to clothe your Manoi skeleton.
> > >
> > >Did you mean rocket, or torpedo?
> >
> > Well said! :-)
> >
> > I've never understood why some people want robots that look
> > like humans. I want one that looks and functions like a ROBOT.
> >
>
> Like a character out of RUR? They were vaguely humanoid...
> or more like....a pick-and-place robot? Could be aesthetically
> pleasing I suppose....or like the Mars Rover?
>
> Perhaps you are of the school that believes form follows function.
> I know I do- excessive decoration tends to turn me off. An MP-5
> looks deadly because it *is* deadly.
>
> However, this person is expressing an idea that he believes has
> some sort of potential; most likely commercial success. And
> he might not be wrong. There are large numbers of people, websites,
> and companies that are heavily drawn to the concept of humanoid
> automata and robots. Are they wrong? Is Rodney Brooks a dolt?
> www.ai.mit.edu/projects/humanoid-robotics-group/
>
> I guess your reaction os a manifestation of 'technological racism':
> www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000675.htm
>
> Just my 2 pennies. So what *is* a Manoi, anyway?
I looked it up on google.
http://www.digitalworldtokyo.com/2006/07/say_ahoy_to_manoi_the_freakyco.php
Doesn't have much room for hacking. Maybe if you lop off the head you
can mount an extra controller board, etc, on top the shoulders.
Regards humanoid or utiliarian robot, etc, it's funny what yanks
people's chains. Lately everyone I know seems to want to build a little
humanoid, or at least a biped, whereas it's obvious that something with
4 or 6 legs could carry much larger loads, and be much more stable over
almost any terrain except for maybe climbing a vertical wall.
My 19-YO nephew saw the following thing, and immediately wanted one ...
and had no idea whatsoever what it takes to build something this
advanced ...
http://www.etek.chalmers.se/~almir/
Likewise, people used to talk about the "next killer app" for PCs. Now
it turns out the big killer app is watching DVDs and playing music. Buy
a 2-Ghz cpu to watch movies on. That's brilliant.
I was shopping for a notebook PC recently, and the only ones they had
in the store had mirror-lcd displays which were great from watching
movies from across the room, but had horrible reflections of both the
overhead lights and also the "back" wall in the store.
Don't people use these things for real work anymore?
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> are. You then have a place in the middle of the manoi for a
> pda/cellphone making it useful. Then you get latex, the kind they use
> to make the novelty real dolls and you come up with different anime
> themes and costumes to clothe your Manoi skeleton.