tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post8233587882951438404..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Silencing the call to prayer / November of the Plague YearUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-5751115161756910962016-11-19T02:17:27.166-08:002016-11-19T02:17:27.166-08:00Well, a bit noisy, though. The large mechanical st...Well, a bit noisy, though. The large mechanical steps.<br /><br />Of course a civilisation powered by nothing more advanced than Farmer Wu's robots would be a lovely alternative to Now.<br /><br />A great deal less of the pollution for one thing.<br /><br />In narration accompanying one of the several videos we've looked at, it was bruited that Farmer Wu's wife had at some point grown a bit impatient with the whole great clanking industry of it all.<br /><br />Taking the old potting shed hobby a bit far, you know.<br /><br />My wife supported her point.<br /><br />She seems to understand these things.<br /><br />You know how they are.<br /><br />Still, b, finally about the best I can say concerning farmer Wu and His Amazing Exploding Circus -- and this no small thing mind you, at present -- is that, in spending these hours considering him/it, one at least enjoys the limited consolation of entertaining, in at least one furtive corner of the mind, something other than the mushrooming horror of the drumpfsreich.<br /><br />(I did say limited.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-50666755729537844332016-11-18T20:46:18.709-08:002016-11-18T20:46:18.709-08:00No, Tom, I liked farmer Wu's robot..I wish I h...No, Tom, I liked farmer Wu's robot..I wish I had one! There's still something human about it (cute, charming etc). What I meant was: he'd never survive in the monstrous traffic here. When it comes to cars and much else I think there's something frightening (as well as ugly) about a mechanical civilisation.<br /><br />After thousands of years of civilisation Man's best hope is now in robots or finding a place to live on another planet? billoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10716970909272480118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-42382566794623647812016-11-18T16:23:26.428-08:002016-11-18T16:23:26.428-08:00Well yes, I do see the humour in that.
Here on t...Well yes, I do see the humour in that. <br /><br />Here on the freeway feeder Farmer Wu's robot vehicles would suffer immediate marginalization.<br /><br />Still -- credit where due.<br /><br />The much publicized Elon Musk self driving car is projected to be very good at identifying competing traffic, not so good at identifying pedestrians.<br /><br />As a damaged pedestrian, that makes me a bit anxious.<br /><br />Farmer Wu's robots, slower, more ungainly perhaps, still so much less threatening to ambient life. <br /><br />And Farmer Wu didn't just jump in late on the technology. <br /><br />He started fashioning his early prototypes at age 11. His teachers were no good when he was school-aged, he has said, so he stopped going to school. He learned to make robots by making mistakes.<br /><br />In a way, that puts him in a category with the rest of us, though we may be less quick to admit it.<br /><br />In the late 1970s, he got a job at a farm machinery factory. The small income helped him turn old sewing machine parts and some bits of disused steel wire into his first robot. "Until now, I don't know the theory of physics, but I knew that electricity can drive motors and power can be transferred to the robot's hands and legs with levers and wires." <br /><br />His first robot turned out to have growth problems and became "disabled," but the undaunted farmer/inventor continued to experiment,<br /><br />In 1982, his first movable robot, Wu Laoda (the first son of the Wu), was born.<br /><br />The robots' given names indicate the order of their creation, and they are all given his own family name (Wu). His most famous robot is named Wu. He has built robots capable of climbing walls, serving water, lighting cigarettes, playing musical instruments and writing calligraphic script.<br /><br />"I can invent robots able to carry a sedan chair, and next I will make robots of the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac. There are so many good things in life, and they become the basis for my robots".<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49MoNLYFk_k&spfreload=10" rel="nofollow">Wu Yulu Robots</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UD0UHbM1CQ" rel="nofollow">Farmer Wu's Robot Dreamwork</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-63776433851706099232016-11-18T03:05:56.454-08:002016-11-18T03:05:56.454-08:00I'd love to see one of those robots negotiate ...I'd love to see one of those robots negotiate the traffic in Lahore!<br /><br /><br />:-)<br /><br />billoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10716970909272480118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-32397303767794882402016-11-18T01:55:44.330-08:002016-11-18T01:55:44.330-08:00Bomberos Official Video by Bang Data Directed by B...<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhxZiccUfuY" rel="nofollow">Bomberos Official Video by Bang Data Directed by Babylons Train (17 November 2016)</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com