jaba
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but the shemale isntjaba said:but he-man is real!!!
EvilMonkeh said:but the shemale isnt
Insane said:*jumps topic*
did anyone watch that thing on channel 4 last night at around 9pm about those people with both bits
It seems that it is advertising.
A whois lookup on r50rd.co.uk returns the address:
6 darblay street
london
W1V 8DM
GB
A quick search for this address on Google reveals:
Martyn Gould Productions, 6 D'Arblay St, London, W1F 8DN, UK
On a page titled: "Film and Television - Post Production, Commercials"
Interestingly, r50rd.COM was also registered this time at NetSol in Jan. '04 by the same David Mayhew who registered the UK domain.
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/03/09/222227.shtml?tid=159&tid=186So I looked deeper into this 6 Darblay Street address.
Not only is Martin Gould no longer there, they went out of business more than two years ago.
I want it to be real, but i get the feeling its not.I just came across a reply from the creator regarding its authenicty [google.com] on Google Groups:
From: Chris S. (123@123.com)
Subject: Re: Robot built from a Mini Cooper?
View: Complete Thread (9 articles)
Original Format
Newsgroups: comp.robotics.misc
Date: 2004-03-11 13:08:35 PST
I'm not so sure. I really want to believe this thing's for real, but I
have some serious doubts. Here's the response I got from Colin Mayhew,
the robot's inventor:
Colin Mayhew wrote:
>I can assure you that the Cooper project is a real and
>very tangible one. Your suspicion is perhaps
>understandable because the leaps we've made are rather
>significant compared to the current state of
>commercial AI. As Mr. Clarke wrote in Technology and
>the Future, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is
>indistinguishable from magic." What's important to
>remember in this famous quotation is not that the
>technology becomes magic, but rather that technology
>seems magical only to those who don't understand the
>details or are not knowledgeable of the history of a
>technology's development. It's for that reason that
>I've placed notes online and have included videos from
>different stages of the project. Have you seen videos
>of people interacting with the Kismet robot? That
>robot uses a fairly simple emotional model, yet people
>bond to it and treat it as a 'living' creature! It has
>become something magical from bits of aluminum and
>electrons whizzing inside silicon. Your experiences in
>the research sector I'm sure have shown you how
>disconnected the public can be from the realities of
>technology. There are autonomous machines (be they in
>medicine or oil well drilling) so removed from our
>daily lives that when we finally learn of them, we are
>shocked and amazed---far more so than had we followed
>the gradual steps and wrong turns the engineers made
>developing and finessing the technology. This project
>is real, and it, and the systems I've developed for it
>are going to change the way we live our lives. The
>most recent software revision I've tested on the robot
>has some powerful reasoning capabilities, a large step
>more powerful and versatile than that employed on the
>robot when I recorded the videos you may have seen
>online. They are perhaps powerful enough to seem like
>magic, but both devil and the angel of creativity are
>in the details. Soon enough, these little creatures
>will be animating the robots all around us and making
>our lives safer and more fulfilling.
>
>Regards,
>Colin
>
>
> --- "Chris S." wrote: > Is your
>Mini Cooper powered robotic biped a real
>
>>project? Your site
>>seems detailed enough, but the videos look
>>suspiciously like computer
>>generations. Either way, it's an entertaining feat.
>>
>>Sincerely,
>>Chris S.
Whipped said:That is the best hoax ever. Very well done. I don't doubt the guy has some robotics knowledge, but the robot stopping the car clinched the "not real" side of the case for me.
Incidentilly, this is real. Looks great fun
More and more we're seeing home grown modifications to the Mini Cooper -- but this one is the ultimate. "Colin Mayhew" has converted a Mini Cooper r50 into a robot that closely resembles one of those characters from the 80s cartoon, Transformers.
The documentation sounds legit to a layman, but this is clearly a hoax -- possibly created by Mini themselves. Mini's marketing strategies have been pretty genius thus far, but this is new territory. Can they harness the viral nature of the Web? I guess we're helping, aren't we?
Furr said:robots to hemaphrodites , weve got it all here.