2015 Robot Gift Guide

 

The holidays are just around the corner, and that can mean only one thing: it’s time to step back and reflect about what robots you’re going to get this year. This guide, with 17 suggestions for all ages, interests, and pockets, is by no means exhaustive. There are lots of great robotic products out there.

 Prodigal_SOB wrote: 
I agree.  Plus, their wi-fi wouldn't work very well until they got out of the water and their data plans must cost a fortune.

 Proclivities wrote: 
  With all that saltwater you'd think rust would be a pretty big problem.  Now if they were the chromium men of the sea or at least the galvanized men of the sea I might start to worry but those guys seemed doomed to failure to me.

The ever-popular ocean robots.

 buzz wrote: 
Indeed.

we need a spam-killin robot

I think this particular spambag is, in fact an actual asshole.

Are spambags robots, or actual assholes?

 Proclivities wrote: 
Awesome.

Here's The Burger-Flipping Robot That Could Put Fast-Food Workers Out Of A Job

A company called Momentum Machines has built a robot that could radically change the fast-food industry and have some line cooks looking for new jobs.

The company's robot can "slice toppings like tomatoes and pickles immediately before it places the slice onto your burger, giving you the freshest burger possible." The robot is "more consistent, more sanitary, and can produce ~360 hamburgers per hour." That's one burger every 10 seconds.

The next generation of the device will offer "custom meat grinds for every single customer. Want a patty with 1/3 pork and 2/3 bison ground to order? No problem." 

Momentum Machines cofounder Alexandros Vardakostas told Xconomy his "device isn’t meant to make employees more efficient. It’s meant to completely obviate them." Indeed, marketing copy on the company's site reads that their automaton "does everything employees can do, except better."

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 ScottFromWyoming wrote: