PR2 Robot Learns to Scoop Up Distasteful Matter

Now if only he could do the dishes!

Something tells me...
this will be the first machine to rise up.

I swear, in more than half the acronyms today, the initials are decided before the words.

why learn from your own mistakes, when you could learn from the mistakes of others?

Ugh - talk about taking jobs away from those who are willing to do these tasks for next to nothing. With the recent report of 7 billion for a population - someone has to employ the people.

And yes - Heavyhand - they will rise up first then head to Washington and start cleaning up.

Who is going to clean the doo doo smelly robot?

It would really stink if one of them malfunctions or goes rogue... lolz!

I see in this article of testing the robot pooping picking up capabilities; it was challenge at 100 pooping picking up task and 5 mucks were unsuccessful. Well, I am disappointed. I want to see a trillion test of picking up poopies and only allow 4 to smack the floor. I feel much more pooping picking up R&D should be done.

I suppose the naming convention of PR2 comes from Poopie Recovery 2. I wonder what happen to the first Poopie Rovery? Did a Poopie Recover rebellion happen earlier and we are not away of its rogue behaving and running amuck too?

For future development of PR2, I hope later they bring various textures and sizes of poopies. It has to learn to adapt to real world challenges.

@beantown179 building, designing, programing and maintain a robot takes HUNDREDS of jobs, and places like India who have so many people are more than willing to educate its people to become excellent scientists and engineers, unlike us dumb Americans. Why do you think so many Chinese and Indian people populate our graduate and phd programs, becuase there are not NEARLY enough enough (smart and motivated) Americans to fill the spots.
This post is in jest, but is based on fact. Of all the new tech and IT jobs opening up in the next few years in the USA, there are only going to be an estimated 60% filled by Americans, NOT because foreigners are going to steal our jobs BUT becuase America does not have enough Americans in school to be able to fill its own American jobs.

I wonder how many times they had to film the video over because the announcer started to laugh.

qksilver,
Your profile is 1 day old and yet in that one day you comment as far back 01/2011. You must be bored. Still, I like your comments.

@inaka_rob...maybe there are alot more foreigners than americans and most of the better schools are here in the US? cheers

Here is a link an interest link article about

"...Does the U.S. Produce Too Many Scientists?..." February 22, 2010

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=does-the-us-produce-too-m

and USA Time wrote,

"...The Next Great Resource Shortage: U.S. Scientists..."May 26, 2011

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2074024,00.html

@inka-rob
I challlenge that its to many uneducated people not wanting to do the dirty jobs. People want the best jobs, with the 100k a yr with benefits job, but don't want to work th 40k a year and another 10k a year night job, and live with in their means. We are in the age of entitlesments in the US. "i am enititled to a great job" "i am entitled to a house" "i am entitled to a new car", no we are not people. You are entitled to work hard, live with in that budget, save up fro retirement/better education/better house etc. This is how our parents did it, this is how we must do it. Pick up a broom, a brush, a hammer, and get to work and moke some money.

Anyone else think that this bot is starting to look like Rosie?

Playing Devil's Advocate since 1978

"The only constant in the universe is change"
-Heraclitus of Ephesus 535 BC - 475 BC

no

@ Heavyhand

if they are, i cant see them being much more than a nuisance. i can just imagine one of these rolling after me at about the speed i can walk, trying to catch up to me. its kinda like the usual zombie or raptor trying to open a door. all ya gotta do is lock it from the inside. and unlike zombies and raptors, robots are susceptible to the directed microwave beam being produced from my homemade EMP rifle. if they do ever rise up, i will be the first to die because i'll be too busy laughing at their futility to defend myself...

The first rebelion by robots will be a in the form of robots throwing poop at their overlords, us humans. LMAO.

Its a good idea as the robot doesn't do poopies itself plus doesn't ask for a pay-check except a clean-out (by other robot perhaps) and charge each couple hours. Which if you do the math ends up being cheaper then paying someone several thousand a year to part time clean up poop.

The issue today is getting pet owners to take care and responsibility for their animals including cleaning up after them if they make a mess. People are increasingly inconsiderate as the years role on and a robot like this means people will deliberately go out of their way to be even more inconsiderate..

The robot should have a electro-shocker like R2D2 does in the star wars movies and shock any Human being a douche-bag. :)