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Comments on R7 Ridable Robot
Neal Stephenson, among others, saw this one coming. (Read
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| "dat must be wack" (adowg 7/24/2006 9:44:19 AM) |
| "I'm usually looking for more detail in the comments... In googling 'ridable robot' I find that I am approximately the last person on the Internet to find out about this story. However, I also found out about the Butterscotch My Furreal Friends Pony from our friends at Hasbro. This item is child-sized, but is in a more traditional horse shape. It even makes horsey sounds." (Bill Christensen 7/24/2006 12:05:03 PM) |
| "There was also the "robass", a robotic ass, in "The Quest for Saint Aquin". That was by Anthony Boucher in 1951." (Mark 7/24/2006 7:54:56 PM) |
| "Thanks for writing, Mark. I added Anthony Boucher's robass to the site." (Bill Christensen 7/24/2006 9:03:27 PM) |
| "Why do we want this thing? What makes it a robot? just because it has "legs"? So a 4 wheel ATV is faster and more comfortable..." (Dug 7/25/2006 1:27:13 AM) |
| "That depends on the terrain... one of the reasons DARPA is developing the quadrupedal BigDog robot is to have a device that can negotiate urban environments as well as rocky terrain." (Bill Christensen 7/25/2006 8:32:53 AM) |
| "It says, "If you purchase the 4th leg option, you can save the cost of the helmet."" (Josh N 7/26/2006 7:08:16 PM) |
| "The price is off by a factor of ten - it is $52,260 USD" (David K 7/28/2006 11:03:46 AM) |
| "David - thanks for the update; that does seem more reasonable for a device that actually works as stated." (Bill Christensen 7/28/2006 2:19:45 PM) |
| "can butterscotch the pony walk around???" ( 8/9/2006 12:45:33 PM) |
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