Comments on: Point laser, get beer

By: work and travel

work and travel — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:21:09 +0000

Is there any information about this subject in other languages?

By: Bogus

Bogus — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:49:06 +0000

So would that make the input/output program the EI-E I/O?

By: Grovenstien

Grovenstien — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:49:26 +0000

Its a shame it will only work via line of sight!
Where as the good old dog with fetch the paper from the letter box. Perhaps a robbo rex is required? Still a very impresive!

By: Toast

Toast — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:37:41 +0000

I would like to know how inventors get the parts for things like this. Its not like they go out to lowes and pick up some pipe…

By: underdog

underdog — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:24:52 +0000

Only useful for people who do not have Parkinsons (ex. Michael J. Fox). Can you imagine the little robot going all over the place cause the person can’t control the pointer?

By: xdx

xdx — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:45:26 +0000

Seriously, are they making these robots intentionally slow as hell? The thing spent the last two minutes of the first demonstration extending its arm for the operator.

By: X

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:17:53 +0000

Can it charge itself?
what happens when the laser battery goes out?

By: Del

Del — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:24:57 +0000

Around 1:50, when it’s picking up the phone, notice how the people in the background are moving really fast? That thing picks up stuff slower than my six-year-old cleaning up his toys!

By: sidge

sidge — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:14:59 +0000

vonskippy – where are the “how it was made” pictures on that?

By: VonSkippy

VonSkippy — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:32:57 +0000

Me and my wife made one of those 5 years ago – and it responds to BOTH voice and finger pointing – she’s called Zurie.

By: roosta

roosta — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:54:38 +0000

hahhahhaha, thats a little harsh msi. funny, but still

By: msl

msl — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:03:03 +0000

This may be mean to disabled people, but what happens if they “do” program it to “go get the laser for you” and it malfunctions and tries to go get it when you actually have it? I can just see some disabled person, who is so crippled that they need this robot, fighting with it for the pointer.

By: benhoe

benhoe — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:37:12 +0000

I wonder how many times they pointed it at each other’s body parts…for reach purposes of course.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:21:57 +0000

2:43 in the video, you can see that the robot uses a mac mini. i guess it fits the form factor…