12/23/2004: Housesitter robot

Undertoad · 12-23-2004, 12:20 PM

Um, OK: according to the full story, this thing didn't fly out of someone's nose. It's actually a $30,000 robot that, well...

...can alert homeowners to burglars or housesit for their pets -- and, when not at work, lounge about and be "beautiful."

This serves as notice to the Japanese culture. You have arrived. You are now officially at the point where your money creates its own reasons to be spent.

HOUSESIT their PETS? Howzat? Maybe you put your hamster into it and let it operate it?

However, apparently there is a market for the British artists IotD keeps featuring: Designed by British artist Paul White, "Roborior" weighs 3.25 kilograms (7.15 pounds) with a height of 27 centimeters (10.8 inches) and can run at up to 19 centimers per second.

lookout123 · 12-23-2004, 12:43 PM

what? the robot was just created and now it needs its own cellphone? who is it calling? Skynet???

Troubleshooter · 12-23-2004, 12:53 PM

I'm betting you can network it and call your house and get real time cam shots.

lookout123 · 12-23-2004, 02:03 PM

hmmm, program it to follow the SO and now you can be avirtual stalker... excellent.

Roosta · 12-23-2004, 03:20 PM

I don't see a vacuum nozzle or duster anywhere on that thing....

lookout123 · 12-23-2004, 03:23 PM

actually it doesn't do the cleaning on its own. it recruits slave labor very effectively though.

perth · 12-23-2004, 04:49 PM

I don't think the items Roosta was looking for are for cleaning...

... How come we don't have a "self-love" emoticon?

capnhowdy · 12-23-2004, 06:51 PM

If these things work fairly well, I want a divorce. With it's surveillance techniques, maybe get grounds for one?
[quote] "ain't but one way out, baby..." [quote] Allman Bros. Band

capnhowdy · 12-23-2004, 06:58 PM

does it have two arms & one breast or three arms & no breasts? Hopefully, the price is negotiabale.

richlevy · 12-23-2004, 08:26 PM

I don't get it. Does the robot move about and fill the pet's water dish? A $75 netcam can do the watching part.

Elspode · 12-24-2004, 10:06 AM

It looks like the love child of a lava lamp and a soap bubble...

12-23-2004, 12:20 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	12/23/2004: Housesitter robot Um, OK: according to the full story, this thing didn't fly out of someone's nose. It's actually a $30,000 robot that, well... ...can alert homeowners to burglars or housesit for their pets -- and, when not at work, lounge about and be "beautiful." This serves as notice to the Japanese culture. You have arrived. You are now officially at the point where your money creates its own reasons to be spent. HOUSESIT their PETS? Howzat? Maybe you put your hamster into it and let it operate it? However, apparently there is a market for the British artists IotD keeps featuring: Designed by British artist Paul White, "Roborior" weighs 3.25 kilograms (7.15 pounds) with a height of 27 centimeters (10.8 inches) and can run at up to 19 centimers per second.

12-23-2004, 12:43 PM	#2
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	what? the robot was just created and now it needs its own cellphone? who is it calling? Skynet??? __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

12-23-2004, 12:53 PM	#3
Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	I'm betting you can network it and call your house and get real time cam shots. __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

12-23-2004, 02:03 PM	#4
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	hmmm, program it to follow the SO and now you can be avirtual stalker... excellent. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

12-23-2004, 03:20 PM	#5
Roosta Nutter. Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: England Posts: 221	I don't see a vacuum nozzle or duster anywhere on that thing.... __________________ Back from the brink...

12-23-2004, 03:23 PM	#6
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	actually it doesn't do the cleaning on its own. it recruits slave labor very effectively though. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

12-23-2004, 04:49 PM	#7
perth Strong Silent Type Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Fort Collins, CO Posts: 1,949	I don't think the items Roosta was looking for are for cleaning... ... How come we don't have a "self-love" emoticon?

12-23-2004, 06:51 PM	#8
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	If these things work fairly well, I want a divorce. With it's surveillance techniques, maybe get grounds for one? [quote] "ain't but one way out, baby..." [quote] Allman Bros. Band __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

12-23-2004, 06:58 PM	#9
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	does it have two arms & one breast or three arms & no breasts? Hopefully, the price is negotiabale. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

12-23-2004, 08:26 PM	#10
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	I don't get it. Does the robot move about and fill the pet's water dish? A $75 netcam can do the watching part. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

12-24-2004, 10:06 AM	#11
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	It looks like the love child of a lava lamp and a soap bubble... __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

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