{"id":763,"date":"2009-04-06T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/06\/send-in-the-robots\/"},"modified":"2009-04-04T17:05:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T00:05:31","slug":"send-in-the-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/06\/send-in-the-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"Send in the robots #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Japan Aims for Walking Robot on the Moon by 2020<\/a><\/p>\n

Japan hopes to have a two-legged robot walk on the moon by around 2020, with a joint mission involving astronauts and robots to follow, according to a plan laid out Friday by a government group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve seen prototypes of these robots in faculty meetings. I think Japan figures if they can design a robot that can survive a faculty meeting, then the airless, radiation-dense, meteor pocked surface of the Moon is not an issue.<\/p>\n

Considerable work remains to be done on the communication interface, however.\u00a0 Early models are reported to use lots of words with no particular definition, like:<\/p>\n

assessment
\ndiversity
\nvision
\nessence statement
\naccountability
\naccreditation
\ninclusiveness
\nmeta-<anything>
\nclimate change
\nretention\u00a0 (don’t ask)<\/p>\n

Also, robots have been heard to wander around the campus muttering, “dead white males,” and bumping into trees in the quad.\u00a0 The good news:\u00a0 their functioning appears undamaged by the collisions, since their behavior is unchanged.<\/p>\n

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