Robot Ryori

[2triky]

February 24, 2010
Just Like Mombot Used to Make
By IAN DALY



The New York Times

IN an empty fluorescent-lighted hallway on the second floor of Smith Hall here at Carnegie Mellon University, Prof. Paul Rybski and a pair of graduate students showed off their most advanced creation.

The culmination of two years of research and the collective expertise of 17 faculty members, undergraduates and doctoral students in the Human Robot Interaction Group, it is a robot outfitted with a $20,000 laser navigation system, sonar sensors and a Point Grey Bumblebee 2 stereo camera that functions as its eyes, which stare out from its clay-colored plastic, gender-neutral face....more...

[Taro Toporific]

...stare out from its clay-colored plastic, gender-neutral face....more...

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WTF is with calling this a "Gender-neutral face"?
Besides the fact he's named MotoMAN, he doesn't have a face but he is wearing a men's hachimaki doo-rag on his head.

[2triky]

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WTF is with calling this a "Gender-neutral face"?
Besides the fact he's named MotoMAN, he doesn't have a face but he is wearing a men's hachimaki doo-rag on his head.

Maybe metrosexual would have been a better choice.

[Taro Toporific]

Maybe metrosexual would have been a better choice.

Metrosexual or maid?
I always think of [url=://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Jemima]Aunt Jemima[/url] when I see a Japanese macho man wearing a hachimaki.

[2triky]

Metrosexual or maid?
I always think of [url=://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Jemima]Aunt Jemima[/url] when I see a Japanese macho man wearing a hachimaki.

Haha. I guess I was jokingly focusing more on the shape of the 'bot as opposed to the doo rag, but I concede your point.

[Ol Dirty Gaijin]

Motoman is the branding of Yaskawa generic robots.