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Offline Dash Jones

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Okay starwars fans...looks like R2 costs 50k
« on: May 22, 2005, 09:10:06 pm »
Looks like they made R2

http://www.codewitch.org/archives/2005/05/real_r2d2_made.html

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A prototype of R2D2 has been built by researchers at the university of Pisa. It will be presented in Livorno today (May 19th) during the presentation of Episode III.
It's somehow taller (1.5 mt) but walks (with 2 or 3 legs) and beeps like the original, and flees from people holding light sabres! Oh, and comes with bluetooth and usb.

The robot actually is the resulting prototype of a research project in creating a kind of slave or companion robot with a friendly interface. What's best than a worldwide icon that in 28 years of honored service ingnited the imagination of at least two generations?
In the mind of the researchers, this kind of robots could be used in to be used in museums, hospitals, or maybe even at home. The budget for the whole thing was about 50k euros.


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Re: Okay starwars fans...looks like R2 costs 50k
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2005, 02:14:28 pm »
50,000 EUROS. That's a lot of money.
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Re: Okay starwars fans...looks like R2 costs 50k
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2005, 09:13:55 pm »
Sheesh, I could build a kill-bot for that much.
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Re: Okay starwars fans...looks like R2 costs 50k
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2005, 01:39:01 pm »
Quote from: Punisher on May 25, 2005, 09:13:55 pm
Sheesh, I could build a kill-bot for that much.

An R2-D2 look-alike kill-bot no less.
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Re: Okay starwars fans...looks like R2 costs 50k
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2005, 02:14:29 pm »
You could build a Mars probe at Radio Shack for less than that.. oh wait.. it's been done already..
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