Boy 'lived as a robot' for two months [video]

Posted by Rickasaurus on Friday July 05, 2013 @07:20PM
from the bbc.co.uk dept.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22125682

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Re:Boy 'lived as a robot' for two months [video] by Falling3 on Friday July 05, 2013 @08:07PM (#5997292)

For the record, BBC, living "as a robot" and "through a robot" are completely different things to me. I was imagining the 116th episode of South Park had come true.

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Re:Boy 'lived as a robot' for two months [video] by mistercow on Friday July 05, 2013 @09:59PM (#5997619)

Admittedly, it would have been way cooler if they had gotten Oculus to chip in a Rift prototype as well.

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Re:Boy 'lived as a robot' for two months [video] by hayksaakian on Friday July 05, 2013 @11:11PM (#5997781)

Same independent conclusion here. Poor titles...

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Re:Boy 'lived as a robot' for two months [video] by anigbrowl on Friday July 05, 2013 @08:52PM (#5997421)

By that metric, I am 'living as a computer' right now.

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Re:Boy 'lived as a robot' for two months [video] by mistercow on Friday July 05, 2013 @09:58PM (#5997614)

More like "living in an HN comment thread" or maybe "living on the internet". But if you did that, and only that, for two months straight, while confined to a small room you were unable to leave, then yeah, kinda.

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Re:Boy 'lived as a robot' for two months [video] by eksith on Saturday July 06, 2013 @01:20AM (#5998044)

We can condense that all really. We're all living as a series of tubes (biologically and metaphorically applicable).

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Re:Boy 'lived as a robot' for two months [video] by lifeguard on Saturday July 06, 2013 @01:28AM (#5998065)

Awesom-o!

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s08e02-awesom-...

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Re:Boy 'lived as a robot' for two months [video] by bajsejohannes on Friday July 05, 2013 @09:48PM (#5997592)

That's a pretty cool use case, unlike some of the suggested ones, like going to a museum. I'm pretty sure a website with images would beat that in pretty much all cases.

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Re:Boy 'lived as a robot' for two months [video] by afxjzs on Friday July 05, 2013 @09:56PM (#5997613)

I am AWESOM-O.

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Re:Boy 'lived as a robot' for two months [video] by malandrew on Friday July 05, 2013 @11:23PM (#5997809)

Is the Anybot video stereoscopic? If so, is it usable with the Oculus Rift?

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Re:Boy 'lived as a robot' for two months [video] by TheSwordsman on Friday July 05, 2013 @11:16PM (#5997794)

Oh, this HN post again.

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