BUILDING BETTER PANDAS THROUGH SCIENCE
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defrogYr latest stop on the way to the Blade Runner future:
The Centre for Intelligent Robots Research, attached to the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, aims to develop pandas that are friendlier and more artistically endowed than their endangered real-life counterparts.
The downside:
Or maybe it shouldn’t.
Still, I’ll be interested to see the results. Hopefully it’ll be a little more than a generic robot with a bear head slapped on top.
Like the RIBA robot nurse.
Mechanical animals,
This is dF
The Centre for Intelligent Robots Research, attached to the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, aims to develop pandas that are friendlier and more artistically endowed than their endangered real-life counterparts.
The downside:
''Maybe the panda robot can be made to sing a panda song,'' said Jerry Lin, the Taipei-based centre's director.
Or maybe it shouldn’t.
Still, I’ll be interested to see the results. Hopefully it’ll be a little more than a generic robot with a bear head slapped on top.
Like the RIBA robot nurse.
Mechanical animals,
This is dF
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on 2009-09-18 04:22 am (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2bExqhhWRI
MEGAPANDA VS GIANT HEADLESS BUZZING DOG
on 2009-09-18 05:11 am (UTC)