@ MiGs

Haha, well you can’t have sex with it, or, can you?

>scramble my eggs and butter my toast and I’ll be happy

That sounds like prison lingo for something rather unpleasant.

@Anon
Soon…soon. :p But then the pancake/sex bots will make artificial pancake/sex bots to satisfy their desires, and they’ll run off together and leave us all alone. QQ

Do you guys share links with BoingBoing?
They happened to have the same post several days ago

@piku
i doubt it as long as people are still willing to do it for $5 an hour

That’s pretty weak compared to the first robot arm here: http://rootproblem.blogspot.com/2010/03/technology-ii-state-of-art.html

This one reminds me of how little use we have for humanoid robots, given the number of humanoids already present. The emphasis is probably more about the machine learning, but there’s no information about that here.

yea most do, apparently it was too difficult to teach someone a tiny skill in life

Yay! Flips pancakes without breaking them and, most importantly, won’t spit in my food. I’m sold.

@dreamer.redeemer

Thank you very much for the link. I haven’t seen the first and the second vid before.

@Piku
The McDonald’s I was at in the late 90′s (it was a decent High School job) had a robot for making fries. Load the hopper with fries from the bags, it filled the baskets and then dropped ‘em and pulled ‘em. All you had to do was tell it how many pounds/hour or some such. They eventually got rid of it because of all the maintenance it needed.

50 iterations of to learn to flip pancakes might be impressive!

However, as a surgery robot the 50 kills to learn how to use a scalpel might be a tiny bit to high, or ? Or imagine they use it as an autonmous operator of an atomic power plant, pilot autonomous robot, ……*booom*

Well… anyhow this worked out nice for the scientific standard pancake “SSPC”… which means not it work out nice for practical usage. How about more/less weight, bigger/smaller, sticky/non-sticky, lower/higher softness pancakes.

Guess this is still very tricky to achieve since it requires heavy feedback considerations.

I would say McDonalds workers are save for the next few years

Waiter, there’s a Nylock nut in my soup…

(Oh man…Methinks there’s an off-color joke lurking somewhere in there, too.)

Wow…What’s next??? Robots that make our cars, phones, and computers???

…oh wait…