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Robot Antics - Please Explain

I just found these!!! What is Robot up to?


Actually, they're sketches for our next contest icon. Any guesses what that means?

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Goodhart says: Feb 11, 2008. 6:44 PM
How about we develop games Robots would like to play....since we have so many that involve robots that WE like to play :-)
uguy says: Feb 12, 2008. 7:08 AM
Robots would like to play. Robots have emotions such as like.
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Goodhart says: Feb 12, 2008. 7:29 AM
Like, desire, need, have need of, whichever fits best :-)

here is another game some computers like to play:


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GorillazMiko says: Mar 11, 2008. 5:58 PM
I loved that commercial.
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ledzep567 says: Feb 15, 2008. 6:21 PM
ahhh yes. the rube goldberg honda accord introduction commercial. one of my favs
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Goodhart says: Feb 11, 2008. 6:47 PM
maybe this guessing game IS the beginning or first iteration of the game Robots like to play on humans ?
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Goodhart says: Feb 11, 2008. 7:23 PM
Or maybe taking out the emotions of the human for the robot to experience...
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GorillazMiko says: Mar 11, 2008. 5:54 PM
I thought these were for the next contest? :-O
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Hello Kitty says: Feb 11, 2008. 4:34 PM
Sorry, I didn't bother reading all of the comments, so I don't know if someone already guessed it, but is it for a robot building Instructable?
A maybe a video game?
Or is it for a mind control machine? (any one see that episode of mythbusters?:-)
Is it for an Instructable on maybe for making people either really happy or really miserable?
Those are just some of my guesses.
-Hello Kitty
(By the way.....what does iteration mean? As in "first iteration"?)
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Goodhart says: Feb 11, 2008. 5:21 PM
=iteration defined
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Hello Kitty says: Feb 11, 2008. 6:07 PM
Thanks, Goodhart! But I still don't understand. "First iteration"? According to the link you posted, doesn't first iteration mean first loop? Or am I just confused? Or is it a clue?
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Goodhart says: Feb 13, 2008. 4:08 PM
Yes, the first loop, the first "round" or first time around....the first installment also...
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Firebert010 says: Feb 7, 2008. 3:12 AM
Remote control contest, we will be challenged to automate anything and everything, with the prize being another t-shirt and possibly something extra =]
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GorillazMiko says: Feb 13, 2008. 3:48 PM
A remote controlled Instructables Robot toy!
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joejoerowley says: Feb 6, 2008. 10:56 AM
Contest: How to build a child leash :) The other day I was walking down the street and I saw a women with a dog with out a leash and a child with a leash. It was really funny.
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Goodhart says: Feb 6, 2008. 7:03 PM
I once had one of those invisible dog leashes.......the novelty wears off fast ....
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joejoerowley says: Feb 6, 2008. 8:09 PM
Oh, what did you use it for? (I am assuming not on the dog. :)
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Goodhart says: Feb 11, 2008. 6:40 PM
You walk along the road and it looks like you have a dog, but there is no dog.....it is for getting odd looks, and I can do that without the leash LOL
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joejoerowley says: Feb 11, 2008. 7:09 PM
No joke. People always give me wired looks when I wear my LED Christmas lights around my neck in the middle of April.
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westfw says: Feb 9, 2008. 12:23 PM
I've been reading Asimov's robot stories to my son. They've become very ... surreal. Especially jarring, given what really happened, is the portrayed failure of technology to propagate - four supercomputers do all the computing for the world, and the positronic brain remains the exclusive property of US Robots & Mechanical Men for 50+ years.
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zachninme says: Feb 9, 2008. 6:29 PM
I don't think that we'll ever get to the point where we have enough/too many computers.
As technology increases, we'll be able to make things that utilize the new power we have unlocked. I think computer games will actually keep it going, as they will eventually, eventually lead to simulated reality. And since a simulation can't be just as big, just as complex, and just as fast as the real reality, we'll have to build to try to match them.
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iman says: Feb 9, 2008. 6:13 PM
I love Asimov's books :)
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Goodhart says: Feb 15, 2008. 5:29 PM
The "I, Robot" series is great (along with "The Rest of the Robots", The complete Robot, Robot Dreams, and Robot Visions.
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Pumpkin$ says: Feb 9, 2008. 12:06 PM
ya I'm with Doctor what on this one
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Goodhart says: Feb 6, 2008. 6:03 PM
instead of a Frankenstein monster, a MANkenstein monster LOL It's ALIVE !
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Doctor What says: Feb 6, 2008. 6:07 PM
AAAHHHH!!!! Stop, please, not, the, awful, joke, please, no, more, torture... (sssppphhhoooooot) {that's the sound I will hopefully hear when I die} :)
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Goodhart says: Feb 6, 2008. 6:50 PM
Igor: You know, I'll never forget my old dad. When these things would happen to him... the things he'd say to me. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: What did he say? Igor: "What the hell are you doing in the bathroom day and night? Why don't you get out of there and give someone else a chance?"
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joejoerowley says: Feb 6, 2008. 8:13 PM
I like this one when they are at the front of the door. [Frankenstein, Igor and Inga in front of HUGE castle doors] Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: What knockers. Inga: Oh, thank you doctor. haha, I am so immature. :)
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joejoerowley says: Feb 6, 2008. 8:14 PM
Wait this one is better! Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Igor, help me with the bags. Igor: [Imitating Groucho Marx (of the marxs bros)] Soitenly. You take the blonde, I'll take the one in the turban. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I was talking about the luggage. I die every time i hear that one!
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Goodhart says: Feb 6, 2008. 8:33 PM
That is one silly and hilarious movie :-)
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joejoerowley says: Feb 7, 2008. 5:23 AM
Yeah, its a classic.
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gmoon says: Feb 7, 2008. 6:34 AM
Oh, dear god, don't get me started..I can recite the entire movie verbatim :o)

All hail Kenneth Mars as Inspector Kemp...

Not to mention all the original movies ("Son of Frankenstein", etc.) that MB simultaneously satired and payed homage to...
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Goodhart says: Feb 7, 2008. 7:09 AM
I do like Mel Brookes movies, but I lean more towards Monty Python movies and tv shows for my dose of silliness when I need it ;-)

That parrot is dead !
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gmoon says: Feb 7, 2008. 7:48 AM
...Norwegian blue... :D

I love 'em both. Do ya think Python (and Marx Bros) stuff is very much about the language? (in a good way..) 'Course there's a health dose of absurdity built into that...

(AhhHH, I do hate it when I get 'cerebral' about comedy. Ya like what ya like.)
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Goodhart says: Feb 7, 2008. 7:58 AM
About language? I am not sure I understand. I can certainly see where "cultural" differences would make one thing funny to some and not to others. Environment also. I heard raves about the movie Arthur but because it involved an alcoholic and my experiences with such were LESS then funny, it didn't strike a positive note with me.
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gmoon says: Feb 7, 2008. 8:36 AM
Stuff like the The Argument Sketch or the 'Bruces:'

-- Fourth Bruce: Michael Baldwin, Bruce. Michael Baldwin, Bruce. Michael Baldwin, Bruce.
-- First Bruce: Is your name not Bruce?
-- Michael: No, it's Michael.
-- Second Bruce: That's going to cause a little confusion.
Seem (to me) to be a lot about the absurdity and self-contradictory nature of language....

And groucho's classic:

Last night I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.
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Goodhart says: Feb 7, 2008. 9:58 AM
Oh yes, that, I understand what you mean now. Yes, in the Dead Parrot sketch I mentioned, that long list of synonyms for deceased Mr. Clease comes up with because of not being "understood", is amazing.

Much like such abbott and costello classics as " who's on first?"; The flea flew, and Horse's Fodder (a mudder eats its fodder), etc.
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Goodhart says: Feb 7, 2008. 10:02 AM
classic W.C.Fields: I love children if they're cooked properly.
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gmoon says: Feb 7, 2008. 11:23 AM
hehe. Kinda like (don't know who said it first):

I have the heart of a small child.....

...which I keep in a jar, in my desk...
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Goodhart says: Feb 7, 2008. 12:14 PM
That sounds like Stephen King :-)
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gmoon says: Feb 7, 2008. 2:29 PM
Yeah, could be...(might it be an older expression? no idea...)
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joejoerowley says: Feb 7, 2008. 7:13 PM
About the parrots thing. There is this group of guys that pretend get spam mail and tell the spammers they have to do something to get the money, so the guys made them do the parrot scene. Its great!

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gmoon says: Feb 8, 2008. 4:52 AM
That's a bit surreal...
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joejoerowley says: Feb 8, 2008. 1:58 PM
I know. Its crazy.
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Doctor What says: Feb 6, 2008. 6:58 PM
:)
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ll.13 says: Feb 8, 2008. 11:05 AM

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jessyratfink says: Feb 8, 2008. 8:00 AM
A.I.? Remote controlled something or other? Child control?
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Goodhart says: Feb 8, 2008. 9:46 AM
Hmm, interesting thought, AI, or maybe Anti-AI ? LOL the new age in "robot control" :-)
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Labot2001 says: Feb 7, 2008. 5:26 PM
it is the begginnings of Robot's world domination plans and human experiments
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GorillazMiko says: Feb 7, 2008. 3:52 PM
Stange.. I was busy doing a political cartoon, and guess what I found?
video game.gif
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Goodhart says: Feb 7, 2008. 4:55 PM
Hmm, that looks suspiciously like AstroBoy out front there, LOL
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GorillazMiko says: Feb 7, 2008. 5:00 PM
It was a political cartoon, so maybe. :P
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Goodhart says: Feb 7, 2008. 5:07 PM
Yeah, I hadn't remembered that from my youth, but a month or so ago they had an Astroboy marathon on......Cartoon Channel maybe?; anyway, I watched a few for old times sake and the way they portrayed certain politics was not always aimed at "children". I rather liked POGO though :-)
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Goodhart says: Feb 7, 2008. 2:48 PM
Dancing, dancing, dancing machine ! LOL (not so fond memories of Disco....)
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Goodhart says: Feb 7, 2008. 7:42 AM
Uses for Old game controllers? (they were, if I recall, little more than a few resistors in a box a a few contact switches)
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ll.13 says: Feb 7, 2008. 6:29 AM
That little man looks like Tim Anderson. =)
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zachninme says: Feb 7, 2008. 3:53 AM
Is this for the valentine's day contest?
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alvincredible says: Feb 6, 2008. 9:05 PM
whoa. if the man is about 5 feet tall, then that means that the instructables robot is about 10 feet tall! the next contest is about...lasercutting humans skulls of (like sylar from heroes!) and turning them into games for robots.
Sb says: Feb 7, 2008. 2:02 AM
You have no dea how close you are to the answer
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Goodhart says: Feb 6, 2008. 9:07 PM
Puppets ! Are we construct puppets ?
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Brennn10 says: Feb 6, 2008. 12:32 PM
AI?
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LinuxH4x0r says: Feb 6, 2008. 7:27 PM
...is no match for natural stupidity!
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Kiteman says: Feb 6, 2008. 9:14 AM
It means I have 31 tries to get whatever it is right before I run out of kids in my class...

Remote ... child ... It's either a contest to make a remote-control toy for a kiddies, or it's an interesting foray into classroom management ...
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Doctor What says: Feb 6, 2008. 11:24 AM
Doesn't really look like a kid, more like a giant robot.
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Goodhart says: Feb 6, 2008. 6:28 PM
The building of a specific kind of "controller box"
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Patrik says: Feb 6, 2008. 5:43 PM
Well, since we know that it has to do with the next contest, I only see one possible explanation...

Robot teledildonics ?! <shudder> :-D
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Goodhart says: Feb 6, 2008. 4:26 PM
Remote controlled instructabler.
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Goodhart says: Feb 6, 2008. 4:29 PM
Hmm, is he attempting to learn about or control the emotions of the "subject"?
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Goodhart says: Feb 6, 2008. 12:25 PM
Cybernetics ? Robotic/bionic control ?
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Goodhart says: Feb 6, 2008. 4:25 PM
My robotic control, I mean of limbs and organs.
fiendcracker! says: Feb 6, 2008. 1:44 PM
how to control people/grow a wierd unibrow.
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zachninme says: Feb 6, 2008. 3:28 PM
Haha! "grow a wierd unibrow" made me actually laugh pretty hard, my head even came back as I laughed to above! *works on hair ointment*
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Sunbanks says: Feb 6, 2008. 3:28 PM
Mind control!
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GorillazMiko says: Feb 6, 2008. 3:26 PM
Is it a contest on how to make something remote controlled, or something like that?
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GorillazMiko says: Feb 6, 2008. 3:27 PM
Or a contest like "How to enter the Remote Controlled Toy Contest!" Or something like that?
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Bran says: Feb 6, 2008. 2:07 PM
Robot looks pretty ish in that first picture! Um, I'm going to go with projects that involve groups or masses of people. Could be be something related to video games, hypnosis, etc. Sounds like an interesting contest!
Artemis says: Feb 6, 2008. 1:38 PM
Robots taking over the world . . .
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trebuchet03 says: Feb 6, 2008. 12:23 PM
Social Engineering Contest?
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ewilhelm says: Feb 6, 2008. 1:34 PM
That's not it, but it's a really good idea! Discuss!
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ewilhelm says: Feb 6, 2008. 12:08 PM
This leash demeans both of us!
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whatsisface says: Feb 6, 2008. 1:04 PM
Ooh, I know this one... The Simpsons?
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T3h_Muffinator says: Feb 6, 2008. 12:44 PM
MUFFIN CONTROL!
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gorgo333 says: Feb 6, 2008. 11:54 AM
the second pesron seems to be VERY uncomfortable, I think it may have something to do with where the cable lead to...
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Doctor What says: Feb 6, 2008. 11:25 AM
Mind control device contest? Or robotics contest? Or maybe a Take over the government using giant robots with mind controlling devices contest?
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