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Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« on: 01 Jul 2013, 11:03 »

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shota/rapiro-the-humanoid-robot-kit-for-your-raspberry-p

Turn your 700 MHz ARM powered Raspberry Pi SBC into a true modern AnthroPC! (At least if this Kickstarter works well)
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #1 on: 01 Jul 2013, 11:09 »

It's funded now, or was it already when you posted it?
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #2 on: 01 Jul 2013, 11:17 »

I R not observant. Looks like you can still get full kits through the KS page for £229 + £20 for shipping outside the UK. Supply your own RasPi (US$413.88 total w/Pi). Presumably, since it's fully funded, there will be run of the mill orders being taken soon enough.

I applaud the use of plain white plastic. Gives the owner a chance to customize their Anth— RAPIRO with custom paintjobs.
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #3 on: 01 Jul 2013, 12:19 »

And I expect all of the painted ones to look like Optimus Prime.
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #4 on: 01 Jul 2013, 14:25 »

Actually, they say it can be customized with a 3-D printer. 


Someone's gonna make wanglimbs a reality...
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #5 on: 01 Jul 2013, 23:41 »

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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #6 on: 03 Jul 2013, 03:28 »

Looks about as useful as Pintsize.
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #7 on: 03 Jul 2013, 18:10 »

But cuter than Pintsize.  8-)
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #8 on: 28 Jul 2013, 12:34 »

Interesting... I saw the name Shota Ishiwatari and immediately wondered if he was related to Daisuke Ishiwatari...

I want a Dizzy AnthroPC :D
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #9 on: 12 Aug 2013, 19:19 »

I feel like this is almost definitely a joke but it amused the crap out of me anyway... http://realitypod.com/2010/10/robot-programmed-to-fall-in-love-with-a-girl-goes-too-far/

Warning: Article contains a pic with some sideboob

Edit: Yeah, some quick googling verifies it's a fake, but it's still worth reading for a laugh if you hadn't seen it.
« Last Edit: 12 Aug 2013, 19:39 by Game and Watch Forever »
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #10 on: 26 Nov 2013, 17:32 »

Resurrecting this thread instead of making a new one, because I found this: The Emotive Robotic Avatar

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This is the robotic puppet that conveys nuanced emotions controlled by its operator from a remote command center. Using a combination of eye expressions, antenna colors, body language, and the digitally modulated voice of its operator, it expresses five feelings--happy, confused, angry, sad, and embarrassed.

Boy, are we a long way from real AnthroPCs. Not an autonomous being at all, but a puppet. A very expensive puppet. A $65,000.00 puppet. No, that's not a typo - it costs sixty-five thousand US dollars.

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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #11 on: 26 Nov 2013, 17:35 »

"Here I am, brain the size of the planet, and they ask me to express five emotions."
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #12 on: 26 Nov 2013, 19:42 »

"...and the only one I can manage is 'depressed'." 


But really, it's the whole "brain the size of a planet" thing that's the problem - what something like that has can't really be called a brain.  Getting a computer to do, through software, what our inefficient ball of mush does by having very dicey hardware would probably take a brain bigger than a planet! 
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #13 on: 26 Nov 2013, 23:28 »

traditional computing? yes.

quantum computing? nah. that shit will change everything we know about computers, and is a fairly direct path towards a real AI.

qubits FTW.
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #14 on: 27 Nov 2013, 06:44 »

As someone who works with some of the atomic systems that are suggested as possible bases for quantum computing, I'm pretty sure quantum computing, if it ends up working at all, will not be all it's cracked up to be.
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #15 on: 27 Nov 2013, 07:21 »

As someone who works with some of the atomic systems that are suggested as possible bases for quantum computing, I'm pretty sure quantum computing, if it ends up working at all, will not be all it's cracked up to be.
Oh, no, it will definitely speed up calculation rates and searches by many orders of magnitude, as well as making essentially unbreakable encryption possible.

AI has nothing to do with any of that though.
The problem has never been speed of execution; rather it is determining exactly what to execute. You simply can't write linear code and expect a sapient AI to wake up and the output of nonlinear code is, by its nature, not possible to reliably predict.
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #16 on: 27 Nov 2013, 11:05 »

Isn't it the other way around? Quantum computing will make it possible to break essentially unbreakable encryption.
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #17 on: 27 Nov 2013, 11:18 »

Both. Most currently-existing encryption algorithms rely on the inability of current computers to factor large numbers. If you had a sufficiently large and powerful quantum computer, you could easily implement Shor's Algorithm, which allows quantum computers to factor numbers far more efficiently than electronic computers. The problem is getting a quantum computer capable of factoring numbers that large. The current record so far is something along the lines of solving 15=5*3 with 90% confidence in a few days. Until quantum computers can get a lot better than that, forget about them factoring an encryption key.

The other side of it is that you could in theory use a quantum computer to set up unbreakable encryption by using entanglement. The challenge, though, is getting the entanglement to work over long enough distances that you could actually transmit the key from the sender to the receiver, and that's not particularly close to happening, either.

edit -- reading a bit more about it now, and they've since advanced the state of the art by factoring 21.
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #18 on: 27 Nov 2013, 13:55 »

I think you mean most public-key algorithms.
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #19 on: 27 Nov 2013, 18:08 »

Yeah, I was referring to public-key algorithms there.
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #20 on: 26 Mar 2014, 04:05 »

He is a toaster, and he makes bread fun neurotic.
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #21 on: 26 Mar 2014, 11:36 »

Haha, cute! They should have painted a smile on the side of that toaster.
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #22 on: 26 Mar 2014, 14:29 »

This is great! I mean, I wouldn't actually want kitchen appliances like that, but as a project, it's a very funny idea.
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #24 on: 08 Feb 2015, 10:25 »

If May needs a job, maybe she could apply here: A high-tech hotel opening in Japan will be staffed by multilingual robots.

Although Momo might be a better fit for it.
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #25 on: 08 Feb 2015, 19:45 »

She'd never wear the maid outfit again, though. 
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #26 on: 08 Feb 2015, 19:56 »

Someone posted this on their feed today:

http://rt.com/usa/229811-mind-clones-robot-afterlife/
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #27 on: 13 Feb 2015, 07:27 »

They're making progress on the bait-n-tackle for BoyfriendBot.
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #28 on: 13 Feb 2015, 18:21 »

They're making progress on the bait-n-tackle for BoyfriendBot.
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #29 on: 01 Mar 2015, 15:00 »

Actually, the potential of quantum computers with regards to AI is huge. I mean, we can already simulate neurones - it's something i do as part of my computer science with AI course - and we can make learning computers, of a sort. The real issue is simulating enough neurones to actually perform as some form of brain. I mean, think something like 3x10^9 neurones. Each taking robably 3^10^3 cycles to calculate. Plus each subsection's learning algorithm... you're looking at something like 3x10^18 cycles per irl second, or more.

In other words, not exactly efficient for our current computers. There is the potential there, but it'd be better to find a more efficient runtime.
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Re: Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
« Reply #30 on: 01 Mar 2015, 15:38 »

A quick web search found the manufacturer's web site:
http://www.rapiro.com/
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« Reply #31 on: 02 Mar 2015, 18:01 »

Welcome, interesting new person!
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