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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: This is pretty cool,
It is, but I have to wonder why robots always have to be made to look like humanoids at all... We're not all that efficient, and modeling machines after ourselves, I'd have to think the number of parts and complexity would make it prone to breaking down all the time.
But, I'm no robotics engineer.
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dandy72 wrote: We're not all that efficient,
Speak for yourself! 
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dandy72 wrote: why robots always have to be made to look like humanoids
They don't[^]
dandy72 wrote: made to look like humanoids
Because, Batman!
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Yes, but to be of use in the world humans made, human shape is useful, look at C3P0 he can sit in a chair, were as R2D2 gets in the way! also there is alot of research going into exo-skeletons for humans at the moment which is why Boston Dynamics is trying for a human robot!
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glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote: Yes, but to be of use in the world humans made, human shape is useful
Put some wheels on that sucker and put it against the fastest sprinter in the world.
It all depends on the use case I suppose. I'm just thinking the more moving parts, the less practical.
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Yes the more moving parts the less practical, however if Boston Dynamics is going for the Japanese prize, it has to human shaped (the prize is for Exo-skeletons, I think its the fact that aging population less physical workers available...)
By the way I would love to see it on wheels/treads off road!
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glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote: if Boston Dynamics is going for the Japanese prize, it has to human shaped
I was not aware of that. That makes sense then in this context.
glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote: By the way I would love to see it on wheels/treads off road!
It could be a combination of both - legs to handle environments adapted to humans (does it handle stairs right now?), but being on wheels would put it at an advantage the majority of the time.
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dandy72 wrote: It could be a combination of both - legs to handle environments adapted to humans (does it handle stairs right now?), but being on wheels would put it at an advantage the majority of the time.
Lets call them Transformers then.
Paulo Gomes
Over and Out 
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I'll get worried when it no longer requires the umbilical... 
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Oh come on, that supercomputer and 4-ton-battery will be size-reduced before you can even mention them.
(Or maybe it is only a leash...)
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Quote: has been set free in the woods
With only a peanut butter and jam sandwich to keep it alive?
What a ridiculously written article!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: What a ridiculously written article!
Because... The Daily Mail; no need to say any more!
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Boo!
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I am not sure why robots should walk like humanoids, since it is clearly not the best way to move for a machine.
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it's not even the best way to move for an animal!
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Because this is a human world, designed for humans. Humaniform robots would fit in better, For instance, how can a canine shaped robot wash the dishes after it's cooked me a fabulous meal?
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Lick them clean?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm trying to think good thoughts while doing a little project, and I started to think about what my dream project would be. I would probably not thrive in a 10-person team, on a 50-person project, doing some piece of industrial software for an oil company, so it would have to be somewhat limited in scope.
My dream project would be something to help the teacher and students in the classroom, actually use their computers for learning and not just note-taking and cute learning games. (Here in Norway laptops are standard equipment for 8th graders and above; though nobody actually uses a tenth the potential a computer has).
What are you guys' dream projects?
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My dream project will be to sleep too much, so that I can dream more about projects. 
By the way, (an answer relative to your own question) I would provide a questionnaire to the teams. I would first of all consider taking some time to go to the teachers and ask them about their teaching manners, how they teach, what are their problems, what are problems of students (I would ask the students also). Then I would try to introduce computer, to solve this problem.
Chances are that computer is just to going to increase the headache. So I won't bother making this project at all.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I have many, but this article is one of them:
Snapshot Running Processes With SeguroList, Part 1[^]
Basically it's a whitelist project which allows you to take a snapshot of the EXEs running on your machine at any time -- it knows every dll loaded to support each exe also.
Knowing What Is Different
You can save the info as JSON and load it later, thus allowing you to do compares about what has changed since you last took a snapshot.
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HAL.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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