Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon

Re:Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon by kiba on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @09:47AM (#15748125)

My definition of a 'robot' is a machine with motor functions and can make its own decision on how to act in reaction to its environment.

For example, a phone isn't a robot, not unless you give it wheels and the ability to act.

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Re:Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon by hugs on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @09:56AM (#15748205)

By that definition, a clothes dryer with a humidity sensor is a robot. (And I'm fine with that!)

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Re:Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon by eru on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @10:43AM (#15748614)

My favourite robot is a dishwasher.

Mostly because it is so different from what some people naively imagine when you asked them to think of a design for a robot to wash dishes.

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Re:Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon by 52-6F-62 on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @12:44PM (#15749810)

I have to try that question on people sometime. Sounds like fun.

Also, reminds me of this:

   Status: Alive

http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Amana

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Re:Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon by frandroid on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @05:17PM (#15752132)

The dishwasher is missing the thinking part... It only ever does the exact thing ordered to it.

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Re:Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon by eru on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @10:38AM (#15757575)

Bashing one's head against the wall in a day long debugging session for some hard bug usually cures people of the opinion that "computers only ever do what we tell them to do" is a serious limitation on their range of behaviours in practice.

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Re:Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon by frandroid on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @03:35PM (#15760363)

The combinations on my dishwasher can fit in a 12 line lookup table.

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Re:Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon by icebraining on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @10:21AM (#15748413)

A phone isn't a robot

Ahem: https://youtu.be/AKCpqqhe-S4?t=1m

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Re:Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon by SurrealSoul on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @10:44AM (#15748621)

Any phone with a vibration motor would technically be a robot (vibrate when message received)

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