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Comments on Nao Robot Uses Microsoft Surface
How often is a robot shown using human interfaces in sf novels? In movies? (Read
the complete story)
| "Commander Data is a human-like robot (android) and pilots the Enterprise all the time." (Star Trek 9/3/2009 11:02:04 PM) |
| "An old movie I think called "TOBOR the Great" about a robot built to pilot spaceships using human controls." ( 9/4/2009 7:41:46 AM) |
| "I thought about Data but was trying to think of a more mechanical example. I'd forgotten about Tobor, who, as it happens, has only three 'fingers', just like Nao.
Dr. Ralph Harrison, a member of the new government-appointed Civil Interplanetary Flight Commission, resigns in protest against the inhumane treatment being inflicted upon spaceship pilots. His colleague Professor Nordstrom develops an alternative robot spaceman..." |
| "Robbie the robot from Forbidden Planet?" ( 9/4/2009 8:07:00 PM) |
| "i don't have a reference, but i have to say that robot is adorable. i'm glad it doesn't have realistic looks. they creep me out." ( 9/9/2009 3:42:11 PM) |
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