Well, I can't talk about Amazon ALL day

[conuly]

Look at this! Isn't it just the cutest darn thing you have ever seen? I just wanna hug it and love it and send it gently where it's supposed to go! Aw!

Comments

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

I rather like the Keepon robot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWcNYFQ5TLE) that intralimina posted about over at her other blog a while ago. Too bad it's $30K!

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

*squee*

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

How do you find these things?

[conuly]

I don't have the slightest idea. Lemme see if I can figure it out.

Edit: In this case, it was via shadesong.

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

It's going to be spread a bit farther, because it's interesting :) Thanks to shadesong and to you :)

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

In downtown Manhattan, many people are used to seeing unusual things on the streets either as advertising, or as art experiments.

The man who spoke to the robot is interesting. He may have assumed it had a microphone on board, or simply responded to the anthropomorphic model and related to it as if it were a child or animal.

Others may have assumed the robot had a camera on board, or that they were on camera (which some of them were), thus influencing their decision to help the model on its way.

Perhaps not. I would wish to assist it simply for the reasons you gave. ;)

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

I usually find awesome things like this via stumbleupon.com

[leora.livejournal.com]

I talk to inanimate objects all the time. Well, not literally all the time, but on a regular basis. I don't think I'm on camera, and I don't think they can hear me. It's just a habit. I also talk to myself a lot, although that is helpful and works as a bit of a memory trick and keeps me on task.

I would have been inclined to explain out loud why I wasn't following the instructions. And had I been able to follow them, I'd probably have said something like, "There you go."

[conuly]

I talk to inanimate objects all the time. Well, not literally all the time, but on a regular basis. I don't think I'm on camera, and I don't think they can hear me. It's just a habit. I also talk to myself a lot, although that is helpful and works as a bit of a memory trick and keeps me on task.

ME TOO! For both of them.