Jinx wrote:
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>> ..... course if the fish could talk, they'd all say they
>> want to live in the warm end of Russell's tank.
>
>Oh you. Now you're just being difficult. Have you been to the
>toilet today ? ;-)
>

In the famous words of Olin.L: "I only came here to make trouble ;-)"

[someone's got to get you literal engineer types to widen your
perspective, after all ....]
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>Now, using a very large winch and chain to haul this back to bots,
>an environmentally-sensitive bot would be a novelty. Hides in
>corners or runs to the light, scoots to the front door to greet you,
>curls up in front of the fire like a cat, sits by the back door waiting
>to go out for a run........... The Japanese are big on virtual pets,
>any idea what theirs are capable of ?
>

So you think a cat-emulator would be environmentally-sensitive?
[only if it could sort the recycleables from the non-recycleables].

IIAC, Aibo the robo-chihuahua is the most advanced japanese simu-pet
at present. It is environmentally-friendly [never poops on the
carpet] and does a lot of puppy-type things... rollover [?], play
dead, beg. Big in japan [>130,000 sold the 1st year], but very
few were apparently sold outside japan - rest of the world
apparently doesn't think $2500 is the good price for a toy.

The specs on the Aibo are impressive. Computing power similar
to a playstation, etc.

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