Tomi Maila Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 I just noticed this story on the Register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/21/ma..._suicide_robot/ To make it short, an 81-year old Australian man built himself a suicide robot to commit a suicide. The robot worked as planned and shot the guy dead. I wonder if he used LabVIEW for the programming, I guess even 81-year old would learn to program LabVIEW with some practice. Or maybe Mikael & Kurt consulted him a little Link to comment
shoneill Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 I wonder if he was a Futurama fan? Shane. Link to comment
Justin Goeres Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 Call me an optimist, but I won't start worrying until the headline says Australian man killed by murder robot. Link to comment
crelf Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 QUOTE (shoneill @ Mar 21 2008, 07:11 AM) I wonder if he was a Futurama fan? Suicide Booth: "http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/EpisodeSounds/1ACV01/12.mp3' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">You are now dead. Thank you for using Stop'n'Drop. America's favorite suicide booth since 2008." Link to comment
Louis Manfredi Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 Gotta wonder about the relatives. If the guy was with it enough to build the robot, did he really need to go into a nursing home? Link to comment
crelf Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 QUOTE (Tomi Maila @ Mar 21 2008, 01:29 AM) ...built himself a suicide robot to commit a suicide. I have thoughts of a Rube Goldberg machine with the sounds of http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/EpisodeSounds/1ACV01/12.mp3' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">Marvin's theme playing... Link to comment
Wire Warrior Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 Wow.... ....that must have been the most ambitious depressed person I have ever heard of..... Jason Link to comment
crelf Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 QUOTE (jasonw @ Mar 21 2008, 09:10 AM) Wow.... ....that must have been the most ambitious depressed person I have ever heard of..... Yeah - ambitious and suicidal - that's not a combination that your hear of very often these days... Link to comment
orko Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 And in some Australian courtroom, there is a scared little misunderstood robot screaming, "he made me do it! Do not disassemble!!" Johnny v.22? Link to comment
Kurt Friday Posted March 24, 2008 Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 I promised to use my LabVIEW powers for good, not evil, so I had nothing to do with this. Perhaps this is a sign that there is a market for a Euthanasia toolkit for LabVIEW? Link to comment
Justin Goeres Posted March 24, 2008 Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 QUOTE (SciWare @ Mar 22 2008, 10:24 PM) a Euthanasia toolkit for LabVIEW? You mean like the Windows Task Manager? Link to comment
Tomi Maila Posted March 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 QUOTE (SciWare @ Mar 23 2008, 08:24 AM) Perhaps this is a sign that there is a market for a Euthanasia toolkit for LabVIEW? I guess there is also market for products from other companies. Lego could release a simple robot toolkit with some predesigned models LEGO LST. Sony could release a new toy robot with the brand My Last Sony. Link to comment
crelf Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 QUOTE (Tomi Maila @ Mar 24 2008, 02:11 AM) I guess there is also market for products from other companies. Lego could release a simple robot toolkit with some predesigned models LEGO LST. Sony could release a new toy robot with the brand My Last Sony. ...and Apple releases iDie Link to comment
LAVA 1.0 Content Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 QUOTE (crelf @ Mar 21 2008, 10:13 AM) Yeah - ambitious and suicidal - that's not a combination that your hear of very often these days... Isn't that manic-depresive behaviour? Ben Link to comment
crelf Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 QUOTE (Justin Goeres @ Mar 24 2008, 11:47 AM) http://lavag.org/old_files/monthly_03_2008/post-2992-1206373667.png' target="_blank"> Link to comment
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