I'm glad I wasn't mid-slurp on my coffee cos I would have spat it all over my keyboard...lolI feel like taking a lump hammer to it already.
I'm glad I wasn't mid-slurp on my coffee cos I would have spat it all over my keyboard...lolI feel like taking a lump hammer to it already.
Nope - that was last year ...(Isn't it the centenary of the invention of the word ROBOT??)
FULL STORY: https://web.archive.org/web/20130123023343/http://capek.misto.cz/english/robot.htmlContrary to the popular opinion, Karel Capek, the author of RUR is not the inventor of the word robot. The word which is derived from the czech noun "robota" meaning "labor" is an accomplishement of Capek's older brother, the cubist painter and writer Josef Capek.
The word first appeared in the play RUR published in 1920. Some claim that the word "robot" was first used in Josef Capek's short story Opilec (the Drunkard) published in the collection Lelio in 1917. According to the Capek Brothers Society in Prague this is not correct. The word used in Opilec is "automat". ...
Are the robots makers training it to take part in the annual gurning competitionWhat might the next step be...
I shall shall treat your remarks contemptuously, as deserved.Are the robots makers training it to take part in the annual gurning competition![]()
I thought it looked a bit like radio DJ Jo WileyI shall shall treat your remarks contemptuously, as deserved.
Ahh... Sophia... looking like (sorta!) Debbie Harry....
Be still, my beating heart....
Sophia was seemingly already aware, of course...I thought it looked a bit like radio DJ Jo Wiley...
Looks more like Gary Lineker in a blonde wig.Ahh... Sophia... looking like (sorta!) Debbie Harry....
I think they're just hiding the beginning of the Dalek invasion.Not to be outdone by Singapore, Los Angeles has its own Robocop!
Looks a bit phallic, not to mention unstable to me!
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-58841837
Another company, called SWORD International, decided to mount the assault rifle on the back of the Q-UGV and post pictures of it on Instagram. Where it picked up over a thousand likes.
They call it the SPUR – or the Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle.
The gun itself is a 6.5mm assault rifle that the dog seemingly knows how to use.
Ghost Robotics says that SPUR can remotely chamber the first round from an unloaded state and, similarly, clear the chamber and safe the gun if necessary.
There’s an on-board sighting system and soldiers can control the creature via an app installed on military-issued tablet computers.
Although this particular weapon isn’t in use by the US military yet, several unarmed versions of the Q-UGV are in use by America’s air force.
Seems familiar...Had to happen..
Robot Dog Has Assault Rifle Attached
Known as a Quadrupedal Unmanned Ground Vehicles (or Q-UGV for short) the dog is made by Philadelphia-based Ghost Robotics.
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Nothing can possibly go wrong...surelyHad to happen..
Robot Dog Has Assault Rifle Attached
Known as a Quadrupedal Unmanned Ground Vehicles (or Q-UGV for short) the dog is made by Philadelphia-based Ghost Robotics.
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God help us all! This is real...
I have a lot to say about this, but I want the shock to wear off first.
I count four. Five when Mason shows up.Oh dear. Now they have two robots in the house . . .
…if these parents can hover over Riley like that, why don't they save some bucks and interact directly with him?