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Re: Ticklebot
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 22 Jun 1999 16:34:02 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Lego Lad) writes:
> Take a look at this - I reckon I'm a-gonna try and make a Lego one! RCX or
> Cybermaster? Hmm!
> It's a 'tickling robot' that crawls over one's body, gently tickling as it
> goes with its rubber pronged tracks. It tries not to fall off, apparently
> by measuring the slope of the surface, as it were.
Neat! I don't know if it's the best solution to the problem tho.
I bet a robot like that would take a lot of abuse if its user
doesn't lie still.
Maybe you could think up a whole new way to do it. Scott Adams, author
of Dilbert, once (jokingly) envisioned electric t-shirts which would
tickle you when you were sad. Also, I remember a CNN story about
a psychology professor who had a robot arm tickle the feet of
experimental subjects. She didn't use a real robot, but a fellow
experimenter who hid under a table pertending to be a robot.
Obviously, she could have used someone like you, to build a real one.
I'd go with something wearable, something a user couldn't
involuntarily shake off (or destroy!) I guess it would also have
to behave in an at least slightly unpredictable manner.
> Chrid
-S
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