Tweenbots! (Not the kind that BusterK & fightinfilipino like)

Wimble

Yes, Tweenbots!

Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal.

Have you all seen this? It is so great! Heres a video of it in action:
http://blip.tv/play/AejAL5OoUw

Let's discuss how awesome tweenbots are!

Or if you know of any other social experiments that are neat, you could talk about them.

BusterK

These aren't robotic girls between the ages of 13 and 15 at all

fightinfilipino

BusterK wrote: »

These aren't robotic girls between the ages of 13 and 15 at all

Spoiler:

fightinfilipino

also, the Tweenbots project is a neat idea, but i can't help but wonder how these things didn't get flagged as possible IEDs, either...

Green

BusterK wrote: »

These aren't robotic girls between the ages of 13 and 15 at all

Once again, BusterK's greatest fantasies go unfulfilled

Weaver

It's the smile

The Otaku Suppository

I'd just run ahead of that thing screaming

#pipe

FF

Robots can't be underage

haven't you ever watched Hentai

Forever Zefiro

I want one as a pet.

Someone put my address on its flag

Punsie McKale

how many of them do you think just get, you know

booted

redfenix

that's kinda cute

Clint Eastwood

I would be too tempted to set it inside a dumpster or underneath a box.

fightinfilipino

#pipe wrote: »

FF

Robots can't be underage

haven't you ever watched Hentai

but...that makes it so less erotic.

Punsie McKale

I'd draw a little mustache on that thing

skinny87

That is awesome, yet the potential for dickery sadly seems very high.

uberneko

let's go watch mumblecore films after this

Marshmallow

Man, I would definitely help them on their way. I have this weird sympathy for stuff like that.

Kicking them would be like kicking a puppy, you just don't do that.

ThatDudeOverThere

d'awwwww lookit it

Faricazy

and they say new yorkers are dicks

pffft

maybe we're dicks to fat midwesterners

we ain't dicks to cute robots

^___________^

Blake T

fightinfilipino wrote: »

also, the Tweenbots project is a neat idea, but i can't help but wonder how these things didn't get flagged as possible IEDs, either...

A cute robot with a tiny little flag that reads "President Obama".

Highfire

It may be small and cute, but it still wants your pills.

Wimble

Marshmallow wrote: »

Man, I would definitely help them on their way. I have this weird sympathy for stuff like that.

Kicking them would be like kicking a puppy, you just don't do that.

Agreed.

I'd even feel awkward leaving it before it reached it's destination. I'd probably spend all day wondering if it needed my help again and feel like a jerk.

Lurk

Cloudman wrote: »

I would be too tempted to set it inside a dumpster or underneath a box.

You're a terrible person who should feel terrible.

Faricazy

fightinfilipino wrote: »

also, the Tweenbots project is a neat idea, but i can't help but wonder how these things didn't get flagged as possible IEDs, either...

because this is new york, not baghdad.

also this park is right between NYU and lower east side and as such lots of fun things happen there all the time. tiny robots aren't really that out of the ordinary.

Larlar

That video made me giggle. A lot.

skinny87

But what if you don't know it's destination or how to get there?

Just left standing, watching as this poor little thing determinedly rolls off into the distance with no idea where it's going.

Larlar

I can only hope that the tweenbot has a tiny speaker that plays the music dubbed into the video.

BusterK

Faricazy wrote: »

fightinfilipino wrote: »

also, the Tweenbots project is a neat idea, but i can't help but wonder how these things didn't get flagged as possible IEDs, either...

because this is new york, not baghdad.

also this park is right between NYU and lower east side and as such lots of fun things happen there all the time. tiny robots aren't really that out of the ordinary.

Also New Yorkers aren't idiots
Like Bostonians

Air

change the flags to enigmatic clues

Faricazy

BusterK wrote: »

Faricazy wrote: »

fightinfilipino wrote: »

also, the Tweenbots project is a neat idea, but i can't help but wonder how these things didn't get flagged as possible IEDs, either...

because this is new york, not baghdad.

also this park is right between NYU and lower east side and as such lots of fun things happen there all the time. tiny robots aren't really that out of the ordinary.

Also New Yorkers aren't idiots
Like Bostonians

bostonians would establish a moving perimeter around the robot. when it happily reaches its destination, they'll open fire.

Koshian

awww

that's neat

skinny87

Okay, the link on her page

The other robots

The one with 'Please call my family'

That's just freaky, especially if there's a motor to move the head.

I don't mind helping no lost robot get from A to B, but I'm not falling for that whole 'Help me find my family' trick again...

Evander

fightinfilipino wrote: »

also, the Tweenbots project is a neat idea, but i can't help but wonder how these things didn't get flagged as possible IEDs, either...

Well, have they put any out in Boston....



Seriously, though, unmanned unmonitored robots are something of a social security risk.

On top of that, I just see these things getting stolen.

The Otaku Suppository

BusterK wrote: »

Faricazy wrote: »

fightinfilipino wrote: »

also, the Tweenbots project is a neat idea, but i can't help but wonder how these things didn't get flagged as possible IEDs, either...

because this is new york, not baghdad.

also this park is right between NYU and lower east side and as such lots of fun things happen there all the time. tiny robots aren't really that out of the ordinary.

Also New Yorkers aren't idiots
Like Bostonians

thems fightin words

not only would we have helped that robot on its way, we would have taken it to a pub and bought it a beer

SirToasty

I'd help that robot.

Then I would comeback to see if it needed more help.

Druhim

this is pretty cool

BusterK

The Otaku Suppository wrote: »

BusterK wrote: »

Faricazy wrote: »

fightinfilipino wrote: »

also, the Tweenbots project is a neat idea, but i can't help but wonder how these things didn't get flagged as possible IEDs, either...

because this is new york, not baghdad.

also this park is right between NYU and lower east side and as such lots of fun things happen there all the time. tiny robots aren't really that out of the ordinary.

Also New Yorkers aren't idiots
Like Bostonians

thems fightin words

not only would we have helped that robot on its way, we would have taken it to a pub and bought it a beer

Faricazy

Evander wrote: »

On top of that, I just see these things getting stolen.

well, that's the point, it's a social experiment, not a robot experiment. and we passed! yay!

Dislexic

fightinfilipino wrote: »

BusterK wrote: »

These aren't robotic girls between the ages of 13 and 15 at all

Spoiler:

seriously, don't do that

redfenix

yeah, this isn't the place for that

go meme it up eleswhere

BusterK

I think pictures of Chris Hanson just make Dislexic nervous