Linux-powered Robots From France? Oui! 198
An anonymous reader writes "A French start-up created to build autonomous, easily programmable, affordable humanoid robots expects to ship its first product — a humanoid household service robot running Linux — in early 2007. The walking, talking, WiFi-enabled Nao household robot will stand 21.6 inches tall, and will feature 23 "degrees of freedom" of motion — three more than the 14-inch tall Choromet android announced earlier this week by four Japanese companies. Nao's extra degrees of freedom appear to come in the form of gripping hands."
3...2...1... (Score:3, Funny)
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also i cant wait for the following tags to help me locate relevant articles:
fud, notfud, itsatrap, yes, no, maybe, stupid, duh, oldnews, slownewsday
of particular help with be the fact that searching for either "fud" or "notfud" will return exactly the same search results. (the same goes for yes/no/maybe)
Re:3...2...1... (Score:1)
"something obvious"...film at 11.
and
xxxxx fanboys mod me down
and anything that end with "in 3..2..1"
Non, non, non !!! (Score:5, Funny)
I pour un, font bon accueil à nos nouveaux suzerains Linux-actionnés de robot de France !
Re:Non, non, non !!! (Score:1, Funny)
Que je sois le premier qui dit,
moi, comme l'un, je souhaite la bienvenue a nos nouveaux patrons robotique qui font le bang-bang aux pingouins!
Re:Non, non, non !!! (Score:4, Informative)
That should hurt your brain like it did mine
Je suis fier d'être le premier à déclarer (correctement):
Bienvenue à nos nouveaux suzerains robotiques tournant sous linux !
Re:Non, non, non !!! (Score:2, Insightful)
Que je sois le premier a declarer:
J'accueil pour ma part a bras ouverts nos seigneurs et maitres robotiques.
Re:Non, non, non !!! (Score:2)
If you're going to abuse BabelFish, you might as well make up the pseudo-French yourself. "Moi, pour un, welcommé ze nouveau ouverlordes du Linux robot!"
Re:3...2...1... (Score:1, Funny)
Oddly... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Oddly... (Score:1)
A French robot that runs on beer? I don't think so!
Free wine perhaps.
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Re:Oddly... (Score:2)
Re:Oddly... (Score:2)
I just need a smaller one (Score:4, Funny)
AIEEEE!!! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:AIEEEE!!! (Score:1)
Someone had to say it.
Egality, Fraternity, Liberty (Score:2)
Re:Egality, Fraternity, Liberty (Score:2)
Re:Egality, Fraternity, Liberty (Score:2)
These are not the droids your looking for. (Score:5, Funny)
Wait a minute, wasn't Alderaan Robotics completely destroyed by Grand Moff Tarkin a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away?
Re:These are not the droids your looking for. (Score:2)
No, it was AllBran Robotics - for those who like to play fast and loose...
Yes, but... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yes, but... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Yes, but... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Yes, but... (Score:2)
Re:Yes, but... (Score:4, Informative)
Simply head-butt is enough: http://images.google.com/images?q=head-butt [google.com]
lol (Score:3, Informative)
Seasonal risks? (Score:2)
Re:Seasonal risks? (Score:2, Funny)
Worse yet, will you be able to fire them when they become lazy and incompetent?
Anti-police robot mods (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Anti-police robot mods (Score:2)
Re:Anti-police robot mods (Score:2)
Yay, orbital fire!
Re:Anti-police robot mods (Score:2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_Orbital_B
USSR : makers of cool stuff that goes BOOM since 1945
the beginning of a Mech? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:the beginning of a Mech? (Score:1)
Re:the beginning of a Mech? (Score:2)
Do we really want a talking French robot? (Score:5, Funny)
I see it coming already: "I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."
Reaches for remote...
"Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time."
I'm not so sure this is a good idea.
Jolie! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Jolie! (Score:1)
so in the next robocup... (Score:2)
France is the Kingdom of Robots (Score:2, Informative)
I, for one, (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I, for one, (Score:2)
Good thing they aren't trying to make warbots.
(Sorry, but the parent post started...)
Re:I, for one, (Score:2, Insightful)
Sweet! (Score:1)
Re:Sweet! (Score:2)
A lot can be explained by the probability that American farm-boy GIs had a bit of difficulty with the distinction between somebody who happens to speak French and somebody who is of the French nationality. One wonders how many of them refused to stay "down on the farm" after visiting Brussels.
Re:Sweet! (Score:2)
http://jaduncan.net/photos/show/recent/page/1/phot o/freedom-fries-in-the-wild [jaduncan.net]
Yes, as the title suggests, a genuine sighting. Yes, the USAF is fully inclusive, and now allows views that vary all the way in political stance from GW Bush to Pat Robertson.
Restaurant by the Maui Aquarium had Freedom Fries (Score:2)
My mother was appalled - she's a po
I, for one.... (Score:2, Funny)
What every home needs (Score:2, Funny)
A surly, chain-smoking robot, to not do the work you need to get done around the home, which you cannot fire. Sign me up!
Disclaimer: Been to France a couple of times and actually the above would more properly be typical of Parisian behavior; the French people outside Paris have always been quite nice.
Re:What every home needs (Score:1)
And here I was, thinking it was an ob. Futurama reference. But you had to ruin it by making it a French joke...
Other affordable options. And what IS affordable? (Score:2)
Seems like a very similar platform, minus the wifi (which could be added).
I would be interested to see the price point at which these new linux+wifi bots would be sold. I would be surprised to see a sub $500 pricetag, and probably happy to see a sub $1,000 price point.
I wonder what this company feels is affordable?
Linux powered robots from France (Score:1, Flamebait)
Degrees of Freedom? (Score:2)
Anything useful to add? (Score:1)
Anyone have anything interesting to say? About robots?
Re:Anything useful to add? (Score:2, Insightful)
Second glances are scary (Score:2)
French Surrendering and Casualties (Score:1, Offtopic)
In WWII the Americans had 11,200 civilian casualties, the French had 267,000. In total the Americans had 407,300 military casualties from a population of 132 million, the French had 212,000 from a population of 41.7 million.
Freedom (Score:2)
The French and Robots (Score:3, Funny)
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No need to worry. (Score:1)
Humanoid Robots are SOOO Mid-20th Century (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Humanoid Robots are SOOO Mid-20th Century (Score:2)
*Short* Humanoid Robots are even less useful (Score:2)
The surrender jokes are old... (Score:1)
But it.... (Score:2, Funny)
mordre mon âne brillant en métal.
mordre:bite
mon:my
brilliant:shiny
(you get the picture)
wait a second... (Score:2)
you mean as in "freedom fries"?
Also, do french robots only move backwards? (hey wait, weren't those italian robots? my bad...)
I want my Persocom dang it! (Score:2)
Okay... but what do they *DO*? (Score:2)
Not even two feet tall, it strikes me as nothing more than a toy.
Not that there's anything wrong with it being a toy, but the article makes reference to them being "household" robots, which should imply that there is a measure of practical usefulness to them in the household.
In case I'm appraoched by one.. (Score:2)
Link to the site, not to the blog (Score:4, Informative)
Hmmm, looks familiar... (Score:2)
The Gripping Hand (Score:2, Funny)
Re: (Score:2)
Re:obligatory (Score:1)
"Oh look Mommy, a cute
Re:obligatory (Score:2, Interesting)
We may jest, but the French do have a long history of engineering. From the Eiffel Tower to Airbus, they have a good track record. I believe that the first ever hot air baloon flight was also there in the 18th century.
I am not usually a fan of the French, but I have to admit that they do a pretty good job of building stuff. Of cou
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Which Animals at DeGaulle ? (Score:2)
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Re:obligatory (Score:2)
Two responses.
First: I blame the software guys who wrote the frontlineGuns() routine.
Second: "The Germans wouldn't dare go through those woods to the north, would they?"
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Re:obligatory (Score:3, Funny)
That's because the user will be spending 99% of their time updating to the latest versions of the software packages and being told to RTFM by tech support when it won't turn on.
But at least it isn't running windows, that would scare me.
Re:In Soviet Union... (Score:1)
Re:In Soviet Union... (Score:2)
At least the French seem to appreciate sex. Americans, sex - nah, does not compute.
Re:In Soviet Union... (Score:1)
Re:Movie Quote Responses (Score:2)
(Yes, I know the irony of using a movie reference myself
Re:Movie Quote Responses (Score:2)
Re:Yes but ... (Score:2)
Oh please. From Wikipedia:
Gotten *what* job done? (Score:2)
Re:Yes but ... (Score:2)
The tree hugging liberals were actually in the army and fighting in Vietnam. You right wing xenophobes were getting deferments because you had better things to do.
Re:Yes but ... (Score:2)
To the "conservative" Anonymous Coward: The "liberal's" comment (dispite his subsequent research) was really a reference to George W. Bush's draft-dodging during the Vietnam War. Either you are feigning ignorance, or you truly did not understand his comment. I will assume that you are not an entirely stupid man, and that you are simply feigning ignorace in order to exasperate the "liberal" poster. You have likely succeeded. Well done.
Your argument about Vietnam signals that you never had a stake in t
Re:I'll bet it waves white flags great (Score:3, Funny)
The french smell more of BO.
And Paris (literally) smells of dog poo in the summer.
I wonder.... (Score:2)
France was overwhelmed, the USSR lost 20 million people. Poland, Austria absorbed almost without any resistence.
USians and UKians should count themselves lucky and stop the stupid jokes. They are insensitive (like if the French were waiting to surrender, specially after the horroros of WWI) and frankly in very bad taste.
Re:I wonder.... (Score:2)
"Between Germany and Russia" has been a bad place for most of modern European history: Poland's woes are simply geo-political. The men of Poland are not Polacks; they are Poles -- and the country that cracked the Enigma code machines does not build screen-door submarines!
Re:All these "surrender monkey" jokes here.. (Score:2)
The same country whose government surrendered in WWII developed one of the finest cuisines and wines that exist.
If you ask a slightly proud and biaised french, he would tell you that the government never surrendered, because there were two of them. One was Petain's (Gouvernement de Vichy) the other one was De Gaulle's (France Libre). They both accused each other as being illegitimate. Although Petain's government negociated inherrited from the "control" of the lan
US Surrendered to Bush League (Score:2)
Re:All these "surrender monkey" jokes here.. (Score:2)