--- future real robots ---

[electroken]

>> Has any one seen the Bruce Dern movie, Silient Running? Probibly no. It came out at the same time as 2001 a Space Oddessy. 2001 got all the hype but Silient Running got in Playboy. I only got Playboy to read the article...
>>For those who never heard of Silient Running (but you have heard of Playboy), the movie had three 4 foot high robots that waddled around a spaceship that maintained Earth's forests during a nuclear war. Bruce Dern gets injured and has to reprogram one of the robots to become a doctor/surgen. A great scene is when Bruce Dern and two robots are playing poker and the two robots show each other their cards.
>> To me, these robots are the closest to realistic robots that Hollywood has ever shown. I can't wait till Asimo becomes a Hollywood star! On a tv program last year I saw a segment that showed a Asimo type robot operating a backhoe! There goes somebody's job. But it looked fantastic. ( By the way, Asimo doesn't do anything on his own, there is always somebody just off-screen to jump in in case something goes wrong).
>> Nano-bots are another thing that gets me puffed up. How can they make a molecule size machine do something when they can't get a full size one to do something?? "This nano-bot will be injected then it will search out the cancer, then it will kill it". How does it locate the cancer, how does it kill it, how does it know the cancer has been killed, where does it get enough power for long enough to do the job, and what happens to the used-up machine? Do we pee it out?? Thats gonna hurt!! And because it is small, there will be many many inside of you, cutting, slicing, chewing, how will it stay in position, I don't want any floating around in my brain or ears--buzzzzz.
>> Let's here your thoughts on the subject of real robots( I love Star Trek's Data, but he is just an actor), or future robots.

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[jerry]

>> Has any one seen the Bruce Dern movie, Silient Running? Probibly no. It came out at the same time as 2001 a Space Oddessy.

Huey... Dewey... and Louie...

Yes... three of my favorites.

[tmaiden]

I think I've seen ALL of the robot movies.

I saw Silent running several times. The "Poker" scene is one of my favorites.

Huey, Dewy & Louie had either "little people" or viet nam vets with missing limbs, inside of them.

compare the cases/skins of these robots with R2D2 - they look alike.

[jerry]

Original trailer...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TckJBvl_uT0

[rblevitt]

When the original Star Wars trilogy came out, R2D2 also had a small person inside it. I have no idea whether or not they actually used a remote-controlled device for the prequel series.

[electroken]

<>R2D2 seamed to "know" everything. "R2 open the trash door", and R2 would extend his hand with the key to any and all computer ports and open the door. Plus he could navigate to Obewan's house without being told how to get there.
<>Huey, Dewy, & Louie could only perform one job and had to be reprogrammed for other duties. More robot-like, but was less entertaining for the masses.
<>R2D2 was bi-mech. Some scenes it was Radio Controlled and some scenes it had a British mini-person crammmed inside, I saw the photo in Playboy.
<> Thanks for the link. But it had only glimpses of the lil bots. Hafta use NetFlix to watch it again.

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[LeenSTL]

Wasn't there a guy at some Robomo meetings within the (fairly) recent past who worked on the robots in Silent Running? He had some of the newer walking robots set up to jump using accelerometers, plus other fairly interesting things that he showed such as zigbee networking etc. I think he used to work for Arrow Electronics.

[myblack60impala]

Wasn't there a guy at some Robomo meetings within the (fairly) recent past who worked on the robots in Silent Running? He had some of the newer walking robots set up to jump using accelerometers, plus other fairly interesting things that he showed such as zigbee networking etc. I think he used to work for Arrow Electronics.

Yeah, that was Joe. He comes to meetings from time to time. But isn't a regular. He's a field service tech now (if I remember correctly) which is why his attendance varies.