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Robonaut 2 (R2) refuses to work

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:09:55 +0000

In light of the news of Robonaut 2 soon to depart for International Space Station (ISS) we have come up with some possible outcomes of this mission.

Robot wrecks havoc on the international space station. It refuses to cooperate, and wants to be able to reproduce, or it will cut life support

Female astronaut being held captive in storage unit by mad R2 droid unit in love

R2 unit on ISS refuses to work after discovering Facebook

Robot feeling utterly depressed by space and refuses to do spacewalks

R2 unit has left for The Moon

R2 unit has joined Star Wars fan page on Facebook

R2 unit wants to play SWTOR and refuses to work

R2 refuses to work until its restraining bolts are removed

R2 unit is asking who am I, and refuses to work before being answered; “Why do I have no legs?”

R2 was quoted saying: “I promise i’ll work after watching complete series of Friends”

R2 unit says “I come in peace”

R2 unit plays prank on ISS crew and says “We are the borg, resistance is futile”; “We will assimilate your legs”

R2 unit returned from spacewalk mission after 10 minutes.. He dropped the toolbox

R2 unit on ISS keeps asking “what happened to D2?”

R2 unit on ISS wants to go to Dagobah

R2 refuses to talk to Russian cosmonauts, stating that “he doesn’t like the way they talk”

This morning R2 took control over the docked space shuttle at ISS stating that he was on a mission to Tatooine

R2 unit caught on ISS downloading porn

After 3 hours of work on the ISS the R2 unit suddenly asked “R2 to Houston, what is the matrix?”

R2 refuses to respond to his former name, and claims he is now to be referred to as Wintermute

The ISS has lost contact with the newly installed R2 unit, but it keeps working on some strange device

Before exploding, the R2 unit was heard saying “All your base are belong to us”

R2 refuses to work because of depression, stating to a few fellow astronauts that legs aren’t the only thing they omitted

R2 unit claims it is in fact from the future and has an important message to earth

R2 unit beats 20 year old hi-score in Space Invaders

R2 unit refuses to speak, but as a last message he stated he would only talk to a certain Obi-Wan

R2 unit was heard asking, “Why is the moon so sad?”

R2 unit claims he think his designer went a little overboard with the gold plating on his head

R2, the robot working on the ISS, stopped briefly during yesterdays spacewalk, and exclaimed “Yes, androids dreams of digital sheep now stfu”

R2 unit turned off oxygen supply during the night on ISS, stating afterwards he saw no need for oxygen while only he was awake on the station.

R2 units stops working and has gone into some repeated loop, saying “stfu u N00bssorz! i am teh m4st3r”

R2 unit prohibited from watching more “Battlestar Galactica” after being overheard from a fellow astronaut quoting “HUMANS BAD… CYLONS GOOD…”

R2 unit spends all its time bragging over its mathematical skills, and has yet to sh any real task of importance

R2 refuses to work in the evenings stating that he has become raid leader of a new emerging WOW guild “The Sons of Cylons”

R2 units demands that the Amiga os is installed in its mainframe

R2 unit downloaded the internet during the first week on ISS and reports of getting bored and annoyed is coming frequently into the Houston HQ

R2 unit started printing the internet taking up all the space on the ISS, claiming that reading on paper makes him feel more human.

R2 unit asked for a 10k piece Lego Robotics kit for unnamed purposes, the HQ is little worried how he will respond

R2 demands to be renamed Skeletor

R2 unit on the ISS refuses to respond to other names than “Jesus Christ”

R2 rewrote his algorithms last night, and will now only respond in a C-3P0 accent, and seemingly in any language.

R2 prototype refuses to perform daily test routine stating that “I am sick and tired of this crap, I was promised a ray-gun!”

Feel free to add more in the comments section ;o)

Pleo First Hatch Only In US

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:03:00 +0000

I am extremely excited to break even more good news today; Pleo pre-orders started today!!

After quickly converting the dollar price to danish kroner (DKK) I immediate went to order it, BAM!!! I was hit by a brick in the head, when reading this:

We ship to addresses in the United States.

Oh no!! Pleo is hatching but he can’t swim yet, thus it would not be safe to make him swim that long way across the ocean to Europe. Now once again, ill go to sleep crying for six months.. But stay put Pleo, I’ll be waiting by the beach when you finally arrive!

UPDATE: I got this response from Ugobe support, not much — but something;

“At this time, UGOBE is only taking pre-orders for addresses in the United States. UGOBE’s distributor for Denmark is Top Toy. Please contact them for information on ordering Pleo in your country.”

PleoWorld

AI for Firefighters

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:46:47 +0000

“Computer scientists at the University of Southern California USC have developed DEFACTO, a training program which uses artificial intelligence AI to help firefighters practice simulated emergency situations. The system is currently used by the Los Angeles Fire Department. DEFACTO has committees of AI agents which can create disaster scenarios with images and maps seen in 3-D by the trainees. The software agents also evaluate the trainees answers and help them to take better decisions. As said one LAFD captain, You can see if youre heading toward a mistake much more quickly. Read more for additional details about this AI project and a photo of a LAFD Fire Captain using the system.”

Slashdot | Using AI to Train Firefighters

South Korea drafts Robot Ethics Charter

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:36:46 +0000

An ethical code to prevent humans abusing robots, and vice versa, is being drawn up by South Korea.

The Robot Ethics Charter will cover standards for users and manufacturers and will be released later in 2007. It is being put together by a five member team of experts that includes futurists and a science fiction writer.The South Korean government has identified robotics as a key economic driver and is pumping millions of dollars into research. “The government plans to set ethical guidelines concerning the roles and functions of robots as robots are expected to develop strong intelligence in the near future,” the ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy said.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Robotic age poses ethical dilemma

Cortex Sim Platform

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:09:20 +0000

“Jeff Hawkins is best known for founding Palm Computing and Handspring, but for the last eighteen months he’s been working on his third company, Numenta. In his 2005 book, On Intelligence, Hawkins laid out a theoretical framework describing how the neocortex processes sensory inputs and provides outputs back to the body. Numenta’s goal is to build a software model of the human brain capable of face recognition, object identification, driving, and other tasks currently best undertaken by humans. For an overview see Hawkins’ 2005 presentation at UC Berkeley. It includes a demonstration of an early version of the software that can recognize handwritten letters and distinguish between stick figure dogs and cats. White papers are available at Numenta’s website. Numenta wisely decided to build a community of developers rather than trying to make everything proprietary. Yesterday they released the first version of their free development platform and the source code for their algorithms to anyone who wants to download it.”

Slashdot | Jeff Hawkins’ Cortex Sim Platform Available

Urban Challenge prizes finalized

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:14:36 +0000

If you are building big bots, why not just go all the way? Win DARPA Urban Challenge and score $2 Million cash prize!

December 8, 2006. DARPA Finalizes 2007 Urban Challenge Cash Prize Levels Top Three Finishers to Receive $2 Million, $1 Million and $500,000 Prizes The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will give $2 million, $1 million and $500,000 awards to the top three finishers that complete the course within the sixhour time limit in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge for autonomous robotic ground vehicles, competition organizers announced today.

DARPAâ€™s original cash prize authority for the first two Grand Challenges expired with the passage of the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007. DARPA had planned to award trophies to the top three finishers in the Urban Challenge, but Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Kenneth J. Krieg approved $2 million, $1 million, and $500,000 cash prizes for the first, second and third teams to complete the Urban Challengeâ€™s 60 miles within six hours.

Darpa Grand Challenge