Comments on: Video: Baby Robot Coos in Japanese, Rolls Around http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/06/05/video-baby-robot-coos-in-japanese-rolls-around-2/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:13:20 -0500 hourly 1 By: ProfessionalGun http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/06/05/video-baby-robot-coos-in-japanese-rolls-around-2/comment-page-1/#comment-245321 ProfessionalGun Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:35:13 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/06/05/video-baby-robot-coos-in-japanese-rolls-around-2/#comment-245321 I'm 100% with you, Nicholas. These robots aren't interesting to me at all. . . . I'm sure it's because I don't fully grasp the amazing feats being accomplished by these engineers - but it doesn't change the fact that they're getting a little ahead of themselves. These things are being displayed as though they're humanoid cyborgs of the future. . . and they come off more like cheap animatronic characters from Chucky Cheese. In this instance, we have engineers who seem to have said to themselves, "We can't make a robot talk convincingly yet. . . we're just starting to get robots to walk upright (but they still suck at stairs and running). . . and artificial intelligence leaves a lot to be desired. . . so hey - let's make a baby that can't really do any of those things anyway!" . . . Great. At least this appropriately depicts the raw infancy of this technology. I'm not sure how close we really want to get to creating human-like robots, anyway. :) I’m 100% with you, Nicholas. These robots aren’t interesting to me at all. . . . I’m sure it’s because I don’t fully grasp the amazing feats being accomplished by these engineers – but it doesn’t change the fact that they’re getting a little ahead of themselves. These things are being displayed as though they’re humanoid cyborgs of the future. . . and they come off more like cheap animatronic characters from Chucky Cheese. In this instance, we have engineers who seem to have said to themselves, “We can’t make a robot talk convincingly yet. . . we’re just starting to get robots to walk upright (but they still suck at stairs and running). . . and artificial intelligence leaves a lot to be desired. . . so hey – let’s make a baby that can’t really do any of those things anyway!” . . . Great.

At least this appropriately depicts the raw infancy of this technology. I’m not sure how close we really want to get to creating human-like robots, anyway. :)

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