We have to get Japan laid or else some bad **** involving robots will happen.

Robo Halloween · 03-15-2006, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Yahoo

TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese-led research team said it had made a seeing, hearing and smelling robot that can carry human beings and is aimed at helping care for the country's growing number of elderly.

Government-backed research institute Riken said the 158-centimeter (five-foot) RI-MAN humanoid can already carry a doll weighing 12 kilograms (26 pounds) and could be capable of bearing 70 kilograms within five years.

"We're hoping that through future study it will eventually be able to care for elderly people or work in rehabilitation," said Toshiharu Mukai, one of the research team leaders.

Covered by five millimeters (0.2 inches) soft silicone, RI-MAN is equipped with sensors that show it a body's weight and position.

The 100-kilogram (220-pound) robot can also distinguish eight different kinds of smells, can tell which direction a voice is coming from and uses powers of sight to follow a human face.

"In the future, we would like to develop a capacity to detect a human's health condition through his breath," Mukai said.

Japan is bracing for a major increase in needs for elderly care due to a declining birth rate and a population that is among the world's longest living.

The population declined in 2005 for the first time since World War II as more young people put off starting families.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060314...n_060314151752

FinalSolace2 · 03-15-2006, 12:55 PM

so it begins

Beam · 03-15-2006, 01:00 PM

heck i put off starting a family and i live in america.

Nindalf · 03-15-2006, 01:01 PM

What sane person wants to have kids anyway?

da missinlink · 03-15-2006, 01:11 PM

those who want their bloodline to continue... or simply to create somethin that you can mold into a monster an send out to wreak havoc in the world

welshfreak · 03-15-2006, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Nindalf

What sane person wants to have kids anyway?

Those who are even slightly desirable to the opposite sex. Nobody expects you to understand.

Nindalf · 03-15-2006, 01:20 PM

Sex != Kids

FinalSolace2 · 03-15-2006, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Nindalf

Sex != Kids

Kids= bankrupt

logic?

Nindalf · 03-15-2006, 01:32 PM

Kids = Parasites

Pretty much.

da missinlink · 03-15-2006, 01:34 PM

kid born to unmarried parents = bastard

Soba · 03-15-2006, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by welshfreak

Those who are even slightly desirable to the opposite sex. Nobody expects you to understand.

I don't want kids and I'm extremely desirable to the opposite sex!

...at least, my mom tells me I am.

AmishNazi · 03-15-2006, 02:12 PM

Yes you are if you weren't Jailbait

Joe Redifer · 03-15-2006, 02:37 PM

I hate kids. I am all for robots taking care of them. I am also for robots taking care of old people. Old people are basically kids. Why ruin the lives of perfectly fit people who are trying to live their own damn lives when a robot can take care of your old ass? Being old should be illegal.

da missinlink · 03-15-2006, 05:27 PM

most females you talk to online tend to be jailbait, somethin about once there legal goin out wit people alot....

Joe Redifer · 03-15-2006, 05:54 PM

Pronunciation means nothing to you, right?

03-15-2006, 12:55 PM	#2
FinalSolace2 IRAQ- Please assimilate forget past Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: london Posts: 3,602	so it begins __________________ Crowfoot (American Blackfoot Indian Orator) on his deathbed:"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."

03-15-2006, 01:00 PM	#3
Beam ~The Last Of The Old Guard~ Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Salem, AL Posts: 2,341	heck i put off starting a family and i live in america. __________________ When You Dig A Grave,You Best Dig It Wide And Deep,For The Grave You Dig May Be Yours To Keep!

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03-15-2006, 01:01 PM	#4
Nindalf Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 11,905	What sane person wants to have kids anyway?

03-15-2006, 01:11 PM	#5
da missinlink MIA It would seem Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Somewhere not Here Posts: 2,614	those who want their bloodline to continue... or simply to create somethin that you can mold into a monster an send out to wreak havoc in the world

03-15-2006, 01:20 PM	#7
Nindalf Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 11,905	Sex != Kids

03-15-2006, 01:32 PM	#9
Nindalf Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 11,905	Kids = Parasites Pretty much.

03-15-2006, 01:34 PM	#10
da missinlink MIA It would seem Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Somewhere not Here Posts: 2,614	kid born to unmarried parents = bastard

03-15-2006, 02:12 PM	#12
AmishNazi Skag Killer Extraordanaire Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 3,131	Yes you are if you weren't Jailbait

03-15-2006, 02:37 PM	#13
Joe Redifer Olé! Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Denver, Colorado Posts: 19,022	I hate kids. I am all for robots taking care of them. I am also for robots taking care of old people. Old people are basically kids. Why ruin the lives of perfectly fit people who are trying to live their own damn lives when a robot can take care of your old ass? Being old should be illegal.

03-15-2006, 05:27 PM	#14
da missinlink MIA It would seem Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Somewhere not Here Posts: 2,614	most females you talk to online tend to be jailbait, somethin about once there legal goin out wit people alot....

03-15-2006, 05:54 PM	#15
Joe Redifer Olé! Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Denver, Colorado Posts: 19,022	Pronunciation means nothing to you, right?