Ahhhhh giant killing machine!

[jaba]

http://www.r50rd.co.uk/research/internal/v2i/engin/

I am scared

 

[Trem]

Why would anyone want to kill giants?

Bastards

 

[Munkey]

wow. loved the one where he stops the car.

 

[EvilMonkeh]

thats not real.... is it?

 

[jaba]

Im not sure....but it scares me lots if it is!

 

[babs]

That is one of the coolest things I have ever seen. Obviously with it being on the net I'm a little 'hmmm', but regardless that is fkin fantastic

 

[.Wilier.]

Hope its not programmed to sing "Twenty seconds to complyyyyyyyy" in a Silver Bullitt stylee.

 

[Tom]

Thats about as real as Grayskull Castle.

 

[EvilMonkeh]

is a grayskull related to a numskull?

 

[jaba]

but he-man is real!!!

 

[EvilMonkeh]

but he-man is real!!!

but the shemale isnt

 

[Insane]

but the shemale isnt

*jumps topic*

did anyone watch that thing on channel 4 last night at around 9pm about those people with both bits

 

[jaba]

Oohh that was a very cunning hi-jack indeed!
I saw a bit of it but it didnt look very exciting...was it any good?

 

[Furr]

robots to hemaphrodites , weve got it all here.

 

[Tilda]

It looks very cool. That arm dexterity test is fucking amazing but I think the video of it stopping the landrover was just like... omg. I'd like to see some footage of i just walking around etc. infront of and behind stuff that shows that it was acctualy there moving around.
Although he's either genuine or a computer graphics generator to hoax a video of a robot stopping a car.

damn cool, i want one !

Tilda

 

[tRoG]

I want one of those robots for my birthday

*jumps topic*

did anyone watch that thing on channel 4 last night at around 9pm about those people with both bits

Oooh yes, it was rather odd really. I'm still trying to work out how exactly the bits would sit together.

 

[Bullitt]

It's some very clever 3d work imo.

Easy to do with proper planning and software.

 

[Cyradix]

It will take many years of research before we can even begin building robots capable of doing all that stuff.

Even shifting your weight for balance (like any 2 year old can do without thinking) is very hard in robot world....

 

[itcheh]

C G I

 

[Tilda]

<sigh>

Did some googling

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.

So 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.

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/03/09/222227.shtml?tid=159&tid=186

 

[Tilda]

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.

I want it to be real, but i get the feeling its not.

As a side track, look at this!
http://home.comcast.net/~themichaelsmith/VWHiRes.mpg

Tilda

 

[Tom]

I would be more inclined to believe it if he made it from a DeLorean.

 

[Whipped]

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

 

[Driwen]

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

reminds of what sony has produced

http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/1218/sony_06.wmv <-- movie of 4 robots "dancing" . (might be old as I "stole" it from daoc ot).

 

[caLLous]

Taken from this site, which refuses to open for me:

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?

 

[GekuL]

CG without a doubt.

 

[~Yuckfou~]

robots to hemaphrodites , weve got it all here.

Someone mention hermys?

 

[Frizz]

Weren't you a fan of giant clits Yuck?

 

[Jonaldo]

I've got two of them. One to make the tea and one to do my ironing.

 

[TdC]

you can make giant clits make your tea? ooh err matron!