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Let's start with the obvious: [URL="http://www.media.mit.edu/research/groups/personal-robots"]this thing[/URL] is adorable. Less obvious: this thing is powerfully smart. Not only can it learn from you, but it's cloud-connected, meaning it can learn from other DragonBots. I don't covet many toys. But I'd fight you for this one.
This first DragonBot (named Kombusto) was designed to help pre-schoolers learn language, but it's a far cry from the Teddy Ruxbins of olde. Researchers from MIT, Harvard, and Northeastern collaborated to create a bot that not only was very good with language, but could work with visual cues which are a key component of how we communicate. To do that, instead of eyes made of marbles with fabric flaps for lids, the DragonBot employs an Android phone display for its eyes, which makes them much more animated and capable of expression. But the smartphone integration isn't just for aesthetics.
The Android phone is the brain and central nervous system of the DragonBot. It controls the DragonBots movements. The phone's camera provides the visual feedback from which the DragonBot learns, and because it's internet-connected, when one DragonBot learns something, all of the other DragonBots learn it too. Which is, y'know, freakin' incredible and slightly terrifying? Additionally, you can remove the phone and interact with a virtual, app-based Kombusto, or control him with an Android Tablet.
The DragonBot was not only designed to help kids learn, but to help us learn about the potential of human/robot interactions. Significantly, it's going to be under $1,000. Yes, that's definitely expensive for a kids toy, but for an artificially intelligent, cloud-connected, expressive, learning robot, that's the bargain of the century. No word on availability yet, but I know one tech-writer who hopes to find one under his Xmas tree. [[URL="http://www.media.mit.edu/research/groups/personal-robots"]MIT Media Lab[/URL] via [URL="http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/video-kombusto-mit-interactive-dragon-robot"]Spectrum IEEE[/URL]]
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Shut up and take my money
No seriously, this is the coolest thing ever. I want it
Hopefully it won't be annoying as fuck like those goddamn Furbys.
Also:
"Oh you're unzipping your pants? What are you do-"
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/yWbhK.jpg[/IMG]
This thing looks absolutely terrifying.
I couldn't sleep at night knowing this thing was in my home.
Sweet.. now all we need is a Wafflebot.
rrerr in 3D
I came into this thread expecting it to be something like roboraptor.
rrerr
What happens when one person hordes tons of them and trains them to be pleasuring sex bots who only stroke people all day. Will the rest of them learn to become similarly-minded sex bots?
That's a nice derg.
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[QUOTE=Plattack;33726985]What happens when one person hordes tons of them and trains them to be pleasuring sex bots who only stroke people all day. Will the rest of them learn to become similarly-minded sex bots?[/QUOTE]
Both parties make shit loads of money
I want one of these and a Keepon.
2015: The world is taken over by sentient smart phones controlling dragon robots.
Just get a cat!
It's Furby's nephew.
Can it walk around?
Probably the dumbest thing I have seen in years.
[QUOTE=MIPS;33727968]It's Furby's nephew.[/QUOTE]
Hopefully this one doesn't talk in the dead of night even when the batteries are taken out.
Oh god it's a more evolved furby
Cloud connected sounds pretty cool, but how long until someone learns to exploit the system?
In their tongue, they call him Dovahkiin. Dragonbot!
MIT are IRL mad scientists and I love it.
Goddamn, I wish we had stuff like this when we were kids.
[QUOTE=Fahrenheit;33728121]In their tongue, they call him Dovahkiin. Dragonbot![/QUOTE]
Robohkiin.
[QUOTE=Ardosos;33728159]Robohkiin.[/QUOTE]
I wish I thought of that and now I'm going to lose sleep over it.
I want one.
It looks so cute.
this is retarded
Yeah, but can it fly backwards?
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