BERTI RT-1 Robotic Torso

BERTI, a fully automated Robotic Torso, goes through his paces prior to appearing at the Science Museum during February 2009. More details at http://budurl.com/berti.

Video credit: BERTI is a joint project between Elumotion (hardware and low level control) and BRL (movement/high level control).

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Science & Technology

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• robot
• berti
• science
• museum
• emotional
• rock
• paper
• scissors
• Gadget
• Computer

[The1stPoster]

Brilliant, a 500 million pound sophisticated & technologically advanced robot that looks like it was designed to give hand jobs.

Still, I could probably put a wig on it, smear some lipstick across it's face and change it's voice to Microsoft Vicky, and have a whale of a time.

[goodmult]

what a stupid machine..

[vta1985]

So, its a robot that plays hand, hand, hand?

[saladin12740]

lulz.. that robot won over the hobo

[until1it1sleeps]

such a cool machine... to bad they are only useing it 4 rock paper scissers.....

[timelimithit]

Computers will never match the human brain, maybe in terms of computing speed but that's all. It's the brains ability to create problems and scenarios where there weren't any and then solve them that makes it so remarkable. A computer couldn't compose a song or propose a new theory in physics. They can only help us solve the problems that WE create. Maybe a computer can figure out cold fusion, but it couldn't propose the idea.

[JonnyTommyGuns]

Robots are far from autonomy but they are very useful now by remote. Already with biological technology growing very rapidly we will see cyborgs before autonomous robots and cyborgs would most likely be more useful and efficient.

[mzoltan14]

actually, you have right that more people need in schinece for thoes mentioned areas and other biological stuff. just the schoolar (??) system is bad, att it.

[just2w4tch]

is that guy using a P5?

[M4aster]

there is no advance in this type of crap. cure for aids/cancer should have been first priority with the amount of money used to build that heap.