30 strong fingers but still no happy ending for robotic back rub The future is a six-handed massage. Apparently some engineers have sidestepped the conventional uses for robotics – stealing your job and exterminating the human race – by putting several additional arms at the disposal of adventurous masseurs. So the claim goes, anyway: it's an example of how next month's HUBOT exhibition in …
Now that sounds like a lot more fun than undergoing systematic elimination by Cyberdyne T-800 Model 101s. Not so much "I'll be back" as "I'll rub your back".
You have not seen real massage Dabsy. You need to go to the Balkans or even better - to Turkey. There, the local Terminator will terminate you, disassemble you and reassemble you in one piece in about an hour if they are in a hurry, up to four hours if you want a full "annual pre-MOT service".
It is not "I'll rub your back", it is "I will separate your back into pieces and if you leave enough mullah in the tip pot I will be kind enough to put it back together". The experience is one in a lifetime (for a westerner) and the results are amazing. All of this is provided that you are not scared to undergo the procedure (the average UK dweller will have a brown pants moment at the idea of a entering a Turkish Bath and facing some of these guys. Hint - they are BIG).
So, coming back to T800. If the aforementioned masseur (or should it be masseuress?) can do REAL massage it will not be far off from a T800 in its damage potential. No thanks, I will actually leave that job to a human for now.
"The Shiva physiotherapist massages with her own hands" – it says here, proving that workplace gender neutrality has yet to reach The Netherlands
Dutch (like many languages) has gendered nouns, so it's easy for an unsophisticated (or automated) translation to carry across the gender of pronouns, resulting in something that isn't quite fluent English.
They are from Nederland and they speak Nederlands e
FIFY.
The Netherlands ("The" is part of it) has been an accepted English translation for decades, hence "His Majesty The King of The Netherlands", and the people there are quite comfortable with "Dutch" applied to them as people, possessive noun and name of their language even though they didn't come up with it (it's an exonym, like "Germany" is for "Deutschland").
The only bit that does indeed annoy a part of the population is using "Holland" (which is at best two provinces) for the whole of The Netherlands as it demonstrates geographic ignorance of the user. It's equivalent to using "England" to refer to the UK.
Can they pluck a chicken?
(Not safe for vegans, card carrying PETAphools, or anybody who doesn't know where food comes from.)
"There was a Voc therapist in Kaldor City. Specially programmed, equipped with vibro-digits, subcutaneous stimulators, the lot. You know what happened, Borg? Its first client wanted treatment for a stiff elbow. The Voc therapist felt carefully all around the joint, and then suddenly just twisted his arm off at the shoulder. Shoompf. All over in two seconds."
How time flies - that episode was 40 years ago!
(Can we have a Dr. Who icon please?)
"...untick if you don't not want your map data not to be not unused"
I've seen language similar to this on ballot measures in California. Probably the same lawyer writes those T&Cs.
Carrying this idea out, I get a bad movie plot idea: The secret robotic overlords take over the law profession and remake society in a way that makes all humans want to kill themselves to escape. When you think about it, it's at least a little bit plausible. Reading the news, there are times I suspect they are already at work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL9zWeFifcE
says it all.
Also, the second video got me wondering that if that had been in the UK, how long it would have taken a couple of school boys to get the hand to give the v's, wayn kerr gestures etc.
10 PRINT JOSEPH SIMPKINS FANCIES BARRY CRABTREES SISTER
20 GOTO 10
At the beginning of the video, the robot's movements are stiff and uncoordinated, and only approximate the operator's movements. As time goes on the robot's movements become smoother, more accurate and better coordinated, and follow with less delay.
This is all very silly: robots aren't like that at all. Rather than inadvertently switching from its default "Sew A Button" mode to a "Tear Limbs Off All Humans" subroutine that a mischievous programmer cut and pasted from GitHub, a real-life robot has different objectives.
Actually , when you get down to programming the bastards, you'll find that the "Tear limbs off all humans" mode is actually the default mode, and the "sew a button" mode take ages to sort out because any errors in the code and it goes back to default mode.
Which is why I need a new boss......... and a new apprentice........ well there was no way I was going to enter the cage and try and stop the bloody thing.
Boris
<<making do with zips and velcro
From the IBC show (broadcast conference/tradeshow) a few weeks back:
https://ibc.gallery.video/ibctv/detail/video/5578796467001/ibc2017-keynote-shorts:-the-future-with-robots-that-are-like-us
There's a point where 'she' gives a toothy grin which just unnerved the hell out of me. For the full keynote:
https://ibc.gallery.video/ibctv/detail/video/5578924845001/ibc2017-keynote-conferences:-the-future-with-robots-that-are-like-us
(Damn, missed Hyper Japan again!)
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