No chance at all. The software is already too intelligent for that, and not nearly bloated enough.
Surely it would be a simple matter of causing it to comment on its observations, rather than conclusions.
The fact that someone like Google can't entice others to adopt a Javascript replacement (ie, something everyone says they actually want)
Who is this 'everyone'? Seems like mostly people incapable of contributing to such an effort. And you can't use dart right now without compiling to javascript anyway, so you can only half-use it. This is just based on what's there already, and if it's used, then presumably people will spend effort accelerating it.
Lots of loads can't be palletised.
Sure, big stuff. Either a trailer gets dropped off for a time, a massive pallet is invented, or a standard for crane attachment is developed.
pure as the driven snow....
...driven by the exhaust of military jets built [and/or made up of parts made] by the same contractors who build stuff for NASA.
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You know, $BIGSITE
Or automatic chains can be used.
Holy crap, that's about the simplest thing that does something slick like that I've ever seen. And if you get on eBay you get many fat pictures that show you precisely how they're put together.
Yeah
They're all moving violations with associated penalties if prosecuted. They could all reasonably be considered "incidents". The only thing that prevented them from becoming collisions was probably defensive driving on the part of others.
There are apparently over 3.5 million professional truck drivers in the US--that's over 1 out of every 100 Americans
holy shit. 1% of us wasting our lives doing a job that a train could do at least 50% of the time. land of the free, indeed.
are they going to make the trucks self loading as well?,
Well, we do have the technology. We could have pallets with big fat QR codes slapped on the side (and by "big fat" I mean three inches or so) and robotic pallet jacks unloading the trucks, or trailers with floors that would shove pallets out the back of the truck automatically, and trucks loaded in proper order for that to make sense. For stuff that's delivered by the truckload, a whole trailer or shipping container could be unloaded and just dropped off to be dealt with by someone other than the trucker entirely.
I remember unloading a refrigerated truck with another bloke with a fork lift dolly and a powered tail gate, it took forever to unload.
If the dolly is robotic and it controls the lift gate, then it not only will go quicker than if you're involved (don't need any room for you in the system) but it can use an optimizer to determine what order in which to shift pallets if they aren't in proper order. So can a relatively intelligent human, of course, but what percentage of people shifting pallets are that? Obviously some...
There. That didn't add to or change the meaning of what you typed at all.
Horseshit, and also horseshit.
I do use Noscript and Google Analytics (in my NS untrusted list) seems to be on most pages on the net.
Yep.
I doubt running GA on a page gives Google the same level of information that they would have captured using Google Reader.
What do you think they were capturing there? I'd imagine it to be pretty much the same information. They just want to know what you're reading.
But there's no room in a typical parking garage for pick-and-place, so this is the best you can do.
On the other hand, this robot valet is cheap and simple to install, so it can be a good choice for upgrading an existing parking garage.
That's the same hand. HTH, KTHXBYE, HAND
And worse, it can't simply be shoehorned into the existing platform because it's attempting to be a replacement.
The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them.
it's like how Google is asking for others to implement Dart or use their VM, and if nobody's biting on Google's stuff then they certainly won't accept some patchwork Javascript framework that's horribly inefficient.
It is in fact nothing whatsoever like that. This is a technology that you can use right now. And if it becomes highly successful, then it's likely that web browsers will come to look more like it, if not adopt it wholesale.
By the time I trust a robot to suck my dick, it'll probably have a direct neural interface. I just keep thinking about the feeding robot arm mashing the head model in the face. I don't want anything pounding my balls like that.
It's a neat application, but I'm not sure that it's what most of us would think of as a "robot".
Then most of you are idiots, and you should go hang out on the gawker network or similar instead of infesting Slashdot. This is clearly a robot. Maybe it's not a sexy humanoid robot that will suck you off every morning, but it's clearly a robot.
It's also clearly a product with limited utility, because how long is it going to be before cars are all self-driving? The cars will park themselves in the same sort of garages we have now, but they'll surrender to garage control upon arrival. You'll park in the valet zone and hopefully have to acknowledge the control request, and then you'll get out and your car will handle the problem itself.
Robot car parks which are robotic buildings make sense because they can sharply reduce not just the space that the system consumes, but also the time that it takes to park a car. If you watch the video, this system is much, much slower than having self-parking cars, and it saves very little space. But there's no room in a typical parking garage for pick-and-place, so this is the best you can do.
tl;dr: Obviously a robot, obviously not that great, will be obsoleted soon by self-driving cars.
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