২৩ সেপ্টেম্বর, ২০০৯

Robot Floor Tiles — an infinite walkway.

Amazing but practically useless, from Hiroo Iwata, of the University of Tsukuba.

The video is pretty cool, but the voiceover is in Japanese:

২১টি মন্তব্য:

Jason (the commenter) বলেছেন...

It would be great for a music video.

Peter Hoh বলেছেন...

It's an infinite walkway -- for a mime.

As if they needed the encouragement.

Jason (the commenter) বলেছেন...

You could walk inside a house in Asia and never have to take your shoes off.

miller বলেছেন...
এই মন্তব্যটি লেখক দ্বারা সরানো হয়েছে।
miller বলেছেন...

Ahem.

Let's try this again - distracted by the video.

This is actually pretty cool. What's important is not this implementation, but the idea of forming a walkway as needed. This would eliminate the need to have paved roads/areas that don't let water soak in.

Jason (the commenter) বলেছেন...

miller: This would eliminate the need to have paved roads/areas that don't let water soak in.

Wouldn't the robot floor tile still need something solid to operate on?

Lem Vibe Bandit বলেছেন...

It's an omage to ObamaCare.

An unnecessary contraption carrying Obama. Always changing, moving and going nowhere.

wv bowni

Jason (the commenter) বলেছেন...

I think the most important question is: How can we use this during sex?

Lem Vibe Bandit বলেছেন...

Wouldn't the robot floor tile still need something solid to operate on?

Forget the ground then

The sensors up in the ceiling relate the idea of satellites.

Flying cars?

Lem Vibe Bandit বলেছেন...

Ballroom dancing?

William বলেছেন...

Some capitalist with his insatiable greed will find some way of exploiting this utterly innocent invention.

blake বলেছেন...

Practically useless?

I imagine my kids could use something like this to get in and out of their rooms after they haven't cleaned for a while.

Phil 314 বলেছেন...

My kids would have loved this when they were younger and playing the "hot lava" game. You know, if you fall off (or are pushed off) the couch you'll fall into hot lava.

wv: constan Yeah, sure Stan can play too!

Penny বলেছেন...

Those tiles need new slipcovers.

Ann Althouse বলেছেন...

re "hot lava"

Ha ha. My kids did that.

Methadras বলেছেন...

Well, this is Japanese, so I'm seeing how they are making this a prelude to Tentacle-furry-scat sex.

Ignorance is Bliss বলেছেন...

I'm impressed. I never thought I'd see cool technology that was even more useless then a Segway.

rhhardin বলেছেন...

They seriously need hotter models.

MikeR বলেছেন...

Useless? Wait till they make them small and make lots of them cheap. Instant freeway detour.

MadisonMan বলেছেন...

That would be much cooler if the floor was hot molten lava (redundant, I know) and the robot tiles were the only way out before Goldfinger trained a laser on James Bond's -- oh wait a minute, I got distracted by the screenplay I'm writing.

Bad Penny বলেছেন...

Useless? No way. Business and the miltiary will think of plenty of uses for smart boxes that know when they are at the end of the line and then move to the front of the line.

Robo-pontoon bridge.
Robo-cargo containers that shuffle themselves.
Robo-pallets in warehouses to move goods.

I think it'll be most useful in warehouses and on cargo ships.

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