Old McDonald had a robut...

Darren Dirt · December 08, 2011, 11:45:09 AM

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/11/mobile-farm-robots/

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Farmer?s little friend
The Harvest Automation robots are knee-high, wheeled machines. Each robot has a gripper for grasping pots, a deck for carrying pots, and an array of sensors to keep track of where it is and what?s around it. Teams of robots zip around nursery fields, single-mindedly spacing and grouping plants. Think Wall-E without the doe eyes and cuddly personality, or the little forest-tending ?bots in the 1972 sci-fi classic Silent Running.

Mr. Analog · December 08, 2011, 11:53:33 AM

Dagnabbit!

Crazy Moon Farmer: Stay away from my robot daughters!

Crushinator: But Paw I love him

Thorin · December 08, 2011, 01:51:41 PM

Ee - I - Ee - I - Oh!

Now that's stuck in my head.

Darren Dirt · December 08, 2011, 08:44:28 PM

Quote from: Mr. Analog on December 08, 2011, 11:53:33 AM
Crushinator: But Paw I love him

"shut up, baby! i know it!" /bender

PS: Google image search for ^ found me this ... and I gotta admit some of these "if it was a film" casting suggestions = bang on.
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/FortressOfAwesomeness/news/?a=38509

Mr. Analog · December 09, 2011, 06:28:38 AM

Haha, those were great matches I'd say

Darren Dirt · December 09, 2011, 04:02:25 PM

moar robuts...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhVu2hxm07E
^ not pre-scripted? chew on that, SIRI!

Hey, robut lady* @ 2:47, don't cry... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AGgUYUl4qE

"dammit, im in that weird part of youtube again..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwXX9LmSDg

*(who looks strangely a bit like River Tam)

Mr. Analog · December 10, 2011, 07:56:33 AM

I don't think I'll be able to sleep for a week!

Darren Dirt · December 11, 2011, 12:04:28 AM

Quote from: Mr. Analog on December 10, 2011, 07:56:33 AM
I don't think I'll be able to sleep for a week!

visit http://ja.twitter.com/geminoidreal and http://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/hiroshi+ishiguro and YT videos with him and his robot likeness and maybe it'll be more like a month...

http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/humanoids/hiroshi-ishiguro-the-man-who-made-a-copy-of-himself/0 "to learn better about what it means to be human, I made a robot copy of myself" :sigh:

Darren Dirt · December 14, 2011, 11:27:16 AM

"scarier than Jaws: We don't have to go in the water, but we all have to use gadgets"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robopocalypse
(a film version is coming soon, apparently)

Mr. Analog · December 14, 2011, 11:43:46 AM

Groan

Or you could just watch Westworld

Darren Dirt · December 14, 2011, 11:53:21 AM

Quote from: Mr. Analog on December 14, 2011, 11:43:46 AM
Groan

Or you could just watch Westworld

...but... but, I saw someone READING this book on the train this morning! So it must be "popular"!!!

Thorin · December 14, 2011, 12:18:28 PM

This thread is starting to make less sense to me... Westworld?

Mr. Analog · December 14, 2011, 01:02:09 PM

1973 sci-fi flick about robots that gain sentience and start a-killin'

The setting is a futuristic holiday spot where people can live out fantasies, one of which is Old West themed.

Of course sentient robots taking over the role of humans goes back extremely far in film, Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) has a robot taking over the role of a protest leader for example. But really the idea of humans being replaced by inhuman doppelg?nger goes back even further through legends and stories (like the doppelg?nger for one)

Darren Dirt · December 14, 2011, 05:35:36 PM

amazingly, the flick is not based on a book ... unlike is virtually every creative idea in scifi filmdom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westworld

Thorin · December 14, 2011, 05:52:03 PM

Oh, and that ties into the OP's subject of robots and the organically-expanded subject of robots taking over the world. Got it.