{"id":89,"date":"2007-11-29T19:41:06","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T01:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=89"},"modified":"2007-11-29T19:41:06","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T01:41:06","slug":"cargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Cargo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many of the wheeled robots came across as essentially remote-controlled forklifts with faces drawn on the front. It\u2019s possible that they were autonomous and smart, but this wasn\u2019t obvious from the sterile demonstrations. A laundry basket full of tennis balls could really spice up this show next year.<\/p>\n

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This one is meant to act as a receptionist — the brochure placed a lot of emphasis on its \u2018Low Center of Gravity\u2019 from which we can easily guess what happened during last year\u2019s show.<\/p>\n

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There were a fair number of smallish humanoid robots which were cute and nice to watch.<\/p>\n

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But, watching them step nervously across tables, or tip over, or dance awkward, useless dances, I\u2019m really starting to wonder what the big idea was with bipedality anyway. It\u2019s the robots with six legs, or with tank treads, that can really get around.<\/p>\n

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And, don\u2019t even get me started on bilateral symmetry. If you want your machine to really know what\u2019s happening, you need to move beyond the single axis:<\/p>\n

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Many of the wheeled robots came across as essentially remote-controlled forklifts with faces drawn on the front. It\u2019s possible that they were autonomous and smart, but this wasn\u2019t obvious from the sterile demonstrations. A laundry basket full of tennis balls … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}