I wish the Martin Museum (where the factory was, just NE of Baltimore) had or could get one - but I haven’t yet made it out there, myself.
Those you have named would require hazard-pay and something extra to compensate for the humiliation of being seen in that hideous box.
That would be as likely as BB sponsoring a “ride” such as this.
If you ever visit, we can go see the Spruce Goose.
They also have an SR-71.
I’ll also post it to Odd Stuff.
That’s pretty much like my parents’ Husqvarna lawnmower, except that “Hubsi” isn’t allowed out in the street. And is programmed to work regular human hours.
But wait! There’s more!
If you act now, you can also see:
Also also going to Odd Stuff.
“It’s almost hypnotic, like a lava lamp.”
Reminds me of both vehicles by Valentino Braitenberg and Holy Motors by Leos Carax.
must repost…
So one of my neighbors has a lawn Roomba or whatever they’re called, and this thing trundles around looking like a background robot in the background of the original trilogy, and ABSOLUTELY BAFFLING THE DOGS.
They have concluded, I think, that it’s some kind of prey animal because right after this video ended they decided to crouch down and stalk it, which means I’m 90% sure I’m going to have to stop Arwen from eating it at some point.
theodorepython
Of course it’s a prey animal it fucking eats GRASS
gallusrostromegalus
While I can’t fault your reasoning on robot taxonomy, apparently we’re both wrong: Arwen, as much as she is a high-prey-drive animal, is foremost, a herding dog, and has decided that the Lawn Roomba is a SHEEP.
What happened is the lawn roomba belongs to the guy that does most of the maintainence on the neighborhood park, and he had it out grazing on a different section of lawn when my parents came down for a walk and Arwen was siezed by 200 years worth of Kelpie Instincts, rolled out of her Harness and proceded to herd the shit out of this tiny, oblivious robot.
Everything was on display - mock-stalking, intimidating eye contact, barking, running in front of it to try to get it to balk, the scariest barking she can muster (which is actually. pretty scary if you’re not used to Loud Dogs), looking back at my parents for directions. or rather, looking at my Mom while Dad tried unsuccessuflly to capture her.
After about ten minutes they realized she wasn’t biting it, and decided to let her play Sheep Simulator 5000 for a while. She eventually figured out that
- It doesn’t respond to Yelling, Posturing or Aggressive Eye Contact
- It does respond to having its wheels or bump hazards hit
- It would respond to its side being nosed or slapped by moving in a different direction
Content that this was apparently some kind of blind, deaf and particularly stupid sheep, she could now manage the robot by smacking it if it got too close to the creek bed or fence for her liking, and was eventually content to sit on the highest point of the field and Supervise ™ it.
“Hey.” Said Roger, owner of the robot. “Do you think if I put the ramp down she’ll herd it into the back of my pickup?”
Arwen was mostly asleep in the afternoon sun as Roger put the ramp down but woke right up when mom Whistled, then pointed at the truck. She immediately went after the robot and did something that wouldn’t have occured to me, an allegedly more intelligent being: the robot is roughly triangular, and when it hits an obstacle, will change direction so that one of its other sides (rather than points) is now the ‘front’. So to get it to move in a straight line in the direction she wanted, Arwen would smack the two sides of the robot that she didn’t want it to go in in quick sucession, and got it across the field, over a small hill and up the ramp as fast as its clumsy little wheels could go.
“I didn’t know you had a fully-trained sheepdog!” Said Roger
“Me either.” said Mom.
So Arwen now has a Semi-Weekly Appointment to play with Sheepbot.
trebornosnibor
Well this is just beguiling
merelygifted
World Heritage Post.
{Edited to fix some of Big G’s tyops}
They interview the woman who created the vids I just posted:
If you like old Bugattis and are in the area:
(Onebox is French, linked page is English)
Is the last car still rendering?
Stainless steel you say? That’s nothing. This is wrought iron. Ha!
For no good reason, I now want one of these.
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