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    Image of BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2 BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2
    11/12/09

    In reply to Police Robot Negotiator Ends Standoff With Armed Man

    This is how the 'robot' was able to ease the crazy man's nerves #thiscyborglife
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/12/09

    In reply to Police Robot Negotiator Ends Standoff With Armed Man
    Negotiator Bot:Waste makes haste. For time is fleeting. A rolling stone is worth two in the bush.

    Armed man: Go fuck a refrigerator pecker neck!

    Negotiator Bot: Bad language, makes for bad feelings... #thiscyborglife
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/20/09

    In reply to Five Reasons Why Humanoid Robots Will Someday Fight Our Wars
    The biggest hurdle of all is batteries. No matter how elaborate you make a machine, it will always be limited by its power source.
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    Image of RoboBagins RoboBagins
    05/20/09

    In reply to Five Reasons Why Humanoid Robots Will Someday Fight Our Wars
    what about spider tanks? I want autonomous robot insect tanks! And tank killing autonomous robot wasps! And Giant CRAB BATTLE!
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    05/20/09

    @Robotic Bilbo Bagins has no use for fleshy ones: Why stop there?


    Giant Crab that transforms into a tank transforms into a robot!



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    Image of OmniZero OmniZero
    05/20/09

    In reply to Five Reasons Why Humanoid Robots Will Someday Fight Our Wars
    Yeah Johnny 5 from Short Circuit!


    Robots have no chance of revolting as long as there is no A.I. As soon as you implement that, you're done for. They'll slowly realize they are superior and kill us all merely because it can.


    Or we can install a morality core. That'll prevent them from flooding the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/20/09

    @OmniZero: Unless of course, you simply don't install the system that actually stores and distributes the deadly neurotoxin.
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    Image of OmniZero OmniZero
    05/20/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Well with A.I., they might install it themselves...
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/20/09

    @OmniZero: I can just imagine the clerk at the Aperture Science Center looking through invoices, and coming across a huge sum spent on a massive supply of neurotoxin, and a contracting invoice to have a large gas piping system installed in the GLaDOS control room.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/20/09

    In reply to Five Reasons Why Humanoid Robots Will Someday Fight Our Wars
    So basically, we're talking about animatronic avatars of the modern soldier? Sounds nifty, but sounds goofifyingly expensive. Why bother with robo-avatars when you can send a dozen stealthy aerial kill drones and barrel through the streets with remote control tanks? Why use complicated designs, like elaborate mimicry of the human form, when you can use simpler machines, like wheels and wings and engines, that can travel several times faster?
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    05/20/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: If we wanted to plain flatten cities and ignore collateral damages, then yes. In fact, that kind of warfare would make the army and the marines completely pointless.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/20/09

    @Pessimipposaurus: Just the same, the inherent complications of a humanoid robot design goes largely ignored in science fiction for the sake of fiction. A good example is the ASIMO. We've still got a long way before a humanoid robot can even run up and down the stairs, let alone have enough portable power to even do so. As cool as this technology sounds, once you strip away the fantasy element, humanoid robot soldiers will probably never replace real soldiers, because speed and efficiency just isn't possible in a robot of identical physiological makeup (yet).
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    05/20/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Yes. But what can you do? If you want to get something done, you'd better start somewhere, even if it takes forever.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/20/09

    @Pessimipposaurus: Perhaps. Maybe I'm just bitter because we'll get humanoid killbots before I get a humanoid robot slave. Is it so wrong to want a [robotic] slave? Aren't I entitled to a [robotic] slave?
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    Image of Je_suis_un_revolutionnaire Je_suis_un_revolutionnaire
    05/20/09

    @Kaiser-Machead:

    True- but what about cloning humans with a computer in their head instead of a brain? No ethical problem no brain= not human and perhaps they could be cheapily mass produced. Its total SF of course.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    05/20/09

    @Je_suis_un_revolutionnaire: Isn't it much easier to have simian servants as they already do in Japan?
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    Image of kagekiri kagekiri
    05/20/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Yeah, all told, humans are not the most deadly or agile creatures in the physical makeup department. We can hardly fend off poisonous insects unarmed, let alone fight off wolves, tigers, bears, etc. Our way of movement is decent for super-long distance (or so marathon runners have said), but we're super slow in sprint speed and low on jump height.


    We'd be better off with cat robots: fast, agile, climbs many surfaces, survives large drops...and very unfriendly to people it doesn't like. Mount a gun on it's back, and you've got a killing machine.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/20/09

    @kagekiri: And despite all of our most apparent frailties, human beings have managed to spread across the earth and flourish in all sorts of hazardous conditions.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    05/20/09

    In reply to Five Reasons Why Humanoid Robots Will Someday Fight Our Wars
    As long as there will be a Summer Glau bot on the way, it's all good.
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    Image of qhead7 qhead7
    12/29/08

    In reply to Cisco's Streaming Media Boxes and HD Telepresence Gear for Average Joe
    the good folks at cisco were nice enough to let me see one of their telepresence systems. pretty neat stuff. HD!!!
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    Image of MagnoliaX12 MagnoliaX12
    12/29/08

    @qhead7: I love Cisco, I used to go to their user groups meetings and I remember one where they broke out their wireless VOIP phone and had it VPN-ed to a work extension number. (Think it was actually the Cisco 'iPhone') At the time it was pretty cool... I could probably use a Cisco Streaming "Digital Stereo System" for my birthday. Hope I can afford it, and they don't disappoint.

    Cisco MP3 player maybe? That sounds like it has potential.
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