Feb 26 2010Kill All The Natives!: NASA Wants To Put Robotic Scientist 'Avatars' On The Moon

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AH HA! I win the gold, silver and bronze. This is a happy day for me and my family.

Sounds like an awesome idea to experiment with mechanical terra-forming projects. We could build entire bases, and heave them ready before any humans set foot on the surface.

LOL Congrats to Alexa for winning the Geekologie triple medal.

Sorry... Alex.

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sort of like Stanislaw Lem's 'Peace on Earth'

The looking at the fingers in the beginning is running system tests for function and coordination.

Neat idea it would allow us to explore areas without requiring life support. We could even send them out of the solar system, though the communication would take forever, so some auto functionality will need to be built in.

But what the hell are they gonna use for power... no room for solar power on that thing unless its covered with a big film. I'd say it'd need to be nuclear.

Also this is a huge jump in technology from little wheeled rovers to standing bipedal avatars..... 3 years is fairly short for all the design and testing necessary, unless they've been working on it a while...

Lastly did that robot just throw a gang sign at the Earth?

youve obviously never been a robot on the surface of the moon before.

WAY OBVIOUSLY

And Nasa have the worst computer animators of all time!

This video look like it was made by a 14 years old, 10 years ago.

I'm pretty sure that last gesture was an "I see you". Which is ultra cheesy. It's also funny that the robot is all ass up when he's coming out. homo.

Robots Throwing gang signs? Sign me up!!

just sayin

Sooo. It's a rover that they are making humanoid for publicity.

Far be it from me to stand between any opportunity the undereducated public can take to work the latest movie buzz word into their lexicon, but long before the movie Avatar, these would have been called "Waldo's". In fact, that's been the name of remotely manipulated robotic equipment for almost 70 years.

It's bad enough that Avatar ripped off a story line so old and cliche that it's been done a hundred times before, but to start using the damn terminology in place of proper terms that have existed for 70 years is beyond idiocy.

YEH LIKE OMG Avatar FAIL LOLOLOL

Like this is going to happen with the current state of NASA.

the time it takes for the signals to cross such large distances between earth and wherever would make the robot impossible to control in real time.

Why make your robot anthropological? What's the point? The Mars rovers, which operated remotely from a considerably larger distance just fine, thank you, had all the functionality required for the mission. Maybe you don't remember, but the Apollo astronauts had significant difficulty keeping their feet under them. Bipedal is not an optimal design for lunar locomotion. FAIL

robotic scientific moons want to put avatars on nasa

cortex command

It'll get to the moon and then fail to work, that's what will happen.

@ 17. I think you'll find the concept of an avatar is far older than the film.

At first I thought it looked like C-3PO.

Shut down all the garbage smashers on the dentention level!

Shut down all the garbage smashers on the dentention level!!!

"24. atheistgirl - February 26, 2010 4:48 PM
@ 17. I think you'll find the concept of an avatar is far older than the film."

True, but was the headline referring to the film or Vishnu?

The term "avatar" has never been synonymous with "remote control" prior to this movie. And the only reason it is used that way now, is because the viewing public is too stupid to know what the term is supposed to mean, and that the control element isn't it.

It's like someone saw the movie "Tokyo Drift" and thought "drift" referred to someone's hair style.

This moon landing was obviously faked. The dust doesn't settle right and you can't see any stars. I can't believe they're expecting us to swallow that they put a metal man on the moon. This is just a Hollywood sound stage and part of an international political race to build a gold robot before Toyota does.

Wouldn't Martian cheese come from Mars, not the moon? Why are the looking for cheese in the wrong place?

@26. The term in the film is used in the same way as it is on-line and in computer games, which in turn takes it from it's original sense. Hence something in an 'alien enviroment' being remotely controled from afar.

And now I'm finished.

wow.. never thought a robot would make c3p0 look straight. GW is right, we need to end this sh*t b4 it gets too out of hand, you ever see an astronaut in a food line?

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To reiterate, nothing to do with the film. If they keep that stupid bipedal thing going, avatar is probably a more apt term. Though I suppose robot spiders or something would kind of defeat the purpose a mo-cap suit. I just hope they build some new-fangled technology to let the son of a bitch get up when it falls over. The Honda robot can die horribly on a set of stairs. Love to see that thing in moon gravity on shitty terrain.

But really, they should have taken one of those days to make a video that didn't look like shit. Or at least put a decent soundtrack to it. If someone came to me and said "We want 70 billion dollars for this project" I would tell them to go back and spend 20 minutes trolling deviant art or youtube to find someone to make them a new promo video.

We even get the robot doing a "I see you, Earth!" at the end. James Cameron is going to sue the pants off NASA.
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Technology with its rapid growing speed is influencing old ways of doing daily affairs. We don't need anymore to move around to handle different tasks and chores since all of them will be done in a matter of pushing a button located on a remote control.Great experiment of human kind!