[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

From Engadget:

We were all cool with writing a followup on Vladimir Lumelsky’s NASA research work on robotic skins that “feel” tactilely and provoke locomotive reactions, but then Lumelsky and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center had to go and release this totally wack video of a “ballerina” dancing with an obviously suggestive looking “robot” (or whatever that is shrouded in a black cloth that only moves in two planes with a single joint). The whole thing comes off like an eastern european sci-fi porno shot on what appears to be a VCR camcorder from 1987 than it does taxpayer dollars hard at work. Seriously, are we missing the point here, Lumelsky?

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/robot-05zt.html

[Zimphire]

[Randman]

dollers?

[Mastrap]

hollers!

[Zimphire]

Originally Posted by Randman

dollers?

[turtle777]

WTF ?

SWG considers a dressed, computer-animated ballerina and a robot-arm "pron" ?

-t

[Stradlater]

Originally Posted by turtle777

WTF ?

SWG considers a dressed, computer-animated ballerina and a robot-arm "pron" ?

-t

Did you watch the video? Did you see the phallus?

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally Posted by turtle777

WTF ?

SWG considers a dressed, computer-animated ballerina and a robot-arm "pron" ?

-t

You miss the big robot **** in it?

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Stradlater

Did you watch the video? Did you see the phallus?

I see a robot-arm. But you are right, my 13 year-old (non-existant) brother sees a phallus, too.

-t

[MaxPower2k3]

that's great. i saw the headline on engadget, but skimmed over it before. It seems to like it when she rubs it

[Stradlater]

Originally Posted by turtle777

I see a robot-arm. But you are right, my 13 year-old (non-existant) brother sees a phallus, too.

-t

ooOOoo...we got Mr. Maturity here! Lighten up. Sure, sometimes a robot arm is just a robot arm. This one, however...

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally Posted by turtle777

I see a robot-arm. But you are right, my 13 year-old (non-existant) brother sees a phallus, too.

-t

You're an even bigger ham sandwich than that robot arm

[Zimphire]

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

You're an even bigger popsicle than that robot arm

And you want to lick him?

[Randman]

Originally Posted by Zimphire

And you want to lick him?

Too much information.

[budster101]

I don't know if it looks like porn... I don't have that sort of vivid imagination. Well, ok, I do, so it isn't.

I want to know why they had a dancer doing that idiotic dance with a robot arm from 1985... I mean really, I had a friend in AI and Robotics that could do that in 1985, minus the dance of course, that would be silly.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

You're an even bigger My Little Pony fan than that robot arm

Because I don't see a phallus behind everything ?
Man, am I glad I'm not gay. That would seriously ruin my life !

-t

[RedHerring]

Well regardless of what it was supposed to look like, now that the word is out that NASA has dancers playing with robot peni (?) that don't like to be touched, it'll never have that innocent "just a robot arm" look again. Admit it... you all see a ... phallus ... now too no matter how hard your maturity level tries to kick in. Haha

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

You're an even bigger ham sandwich than that robot arm

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

You're an even bigger My Little Pony fan than that robot arm

Last edited by Demonhood : Today at 08:39 PM. Reason: or strawberry shortcake. that works too.



Good one !

-t

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally Posted by RedHerring

Well regardless of what it was supposed to look like, now that the word is out that NASA has dancers playing with robot peni (?) that don't like to be touched, it'll never have that innocent "just a robot arm" look again. Admit it... you all see a ... phallus ... now too no matter how hard your maturity level tries to kick in. Haha

Bingo. phallus' for everyone!

[nredman]

i wish i could get the last minute of my life back

[Rev-O]

Well, that was just wrong.

[iMOTOR]

Looks like they cut that video off before it got real kinky.

[JoshuaZ]

Wow.... thats so... yeah...

[wdlove]

I see no point in that QuickTime film, waste of money.

[d.fine]

Pff, stupid clip, good thing they waste our tax money on different senseless things here...

[Stradlater]

Originally Posted by wdlove

I see no point in that QuickTime film, waste of money.

Did you even bother to read the article?

"Robots move well on their own, especially when nothing is in the way," Lumelsky explained. However, change the environment and a different picture emerges. "Robots should be able to react, but today's robots can't," he said. "That's the difference and that's got to change for exploration."

[historylme]

she should jump on it. That will make for a funny movie.

[ghporter]

Very interesting; interactively moving to avoid a human is an important capability that current generation robots do not have. Very interesting indeed.

And Severed, it does look phallic, that's just not the first thing I thought of. It was an interesting demonstration of robotics, but obviously set up by someone without the...er...non-scientific imagination that many of us here have. I'd have done something like put a hand with a bunch of flowers in it at the end, just to make the shape less suggestive.

[Hugi]

Or put a condom on it to promote safe sex, thus striking two flies in one swat

[RedHerring]

Originally Posted by ghporter

Very interesting; interactively moving to avoid a human is an important capability that current generation robots do not have. Very interesting indeed.

When the robots take over they'll definitely want to have the ability to avoid humans.

Maybe they were thinking more along the lines of Alice from the Jetsons... it'd suck to have your house keeper robot try and vacuum up your kids all the time (no pun intended with the "suck" and "vacuum" bits )

[ManOfSteal]

New Nasaness!

[Stogieman]

Compared to the Japanese, NASA is years behind in robot porn.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...610_robot.html

But given Q1's reported glitch-related "spasms" at the expo, it may be a while before androids are escorting tour groups or looking after children—which may be just as well.