Walky robot understands iPhone gestures, football fanaticism (video)
By Vlad Savov 
posted November 17th 2009 4:19AM
posted November 17th 2009 4:19AM
posted November 17th 2009 4:19AM
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Here in America, we call that a soccer ball...
N900 Robot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WhyrhWsMFk
Yeah, but the question we all ought to ask ourselves is: why?
Yeah, and the MAJORITY of the world call the sport by its real name: FOOTBALL.
And how much do you actually use you foot in American FOOTball?
American Football is called 'football' because the ball used is actually 1 foot long. I dunno the width.
The more you know...
@Azlo
Hmm, I'd not heard that before but it certainly explains a lot. However, under no circumstances is "football" to be called "soccer". Rename your own sport. Mind you, I can't speak since "American Football" is normally known as "Girl's Rugby" here. Sorry about that.
@Kelmon
That's kind of funny, because in America we call Rugby Homoerotic Mud Wrestling. :)
That video could have done without the lame 3 second music track repeating continuously for two and a half minutes.
Probably could have cleaned the desk off first, huh?
Cool robot, though.
generic I hate iphones' / engadget / my life, comment
let's just downrank you until you vanish....
ps: i'm an apple fanboy.
Brava Yuta Sugiura, Gota Kakehl, Anusha Indrajith Withana, Daisuke Sakamoto, Charith Lasantha Fernando, Masahiko Inami, Takeo Igarashi and the whole Igarashi Design VI Project team....that is just such an ingenious first stage solution and implementation...
@MeanSpyvie there in America is just the only one country that call it soccer, you even have Football and is not even played using the "Foot"
Need to control a horde of robot soldiers? There's an app for that.
I think Japan, and Australia call it soccer too.
and South Africa, where the next "Soccer World Cup" is going to be held.
Engadget keeps replacing the word 'and' with a comma, doesn't realise how annoying and unneccisary this is.
Somehow i believe there are easier ways to control a robot...
haha , proving you are just as predictable ?
This is going to be awesome technology for people with prosthetic legs. Imagine going from a wheelchair to a set of those legs, that'd be awesome.
is there a site where i can buy a kit to build one of those robots?
Girl's Rugby? WTF? I played rugby and "American Football", football is more difficult and by far more dangerous of a sport. Just look at the statistics. It is the only sport where every year almost every team has a player that loses a career do to an injury. Soccer is also a great sport, but our version that evolved from soccer, American gridiron football, is more interesting in my eyes and also far more difficult. Find me one professional soccer player that does not look like a boy band member and I'll shut up.
I don't know about more difficult. If at first you don't succeed in carrying the ball you can try again and again. What is that... yeah it is girls Rugby. I am all for that. American football evolved from actual football. No it did not there is no linage here, there is no pedigree. I think they looked at it and said, no man I can't run, chew gum and kick a ball. Let's just run and catch it - like girls. CHRIST! No evolution here, just a shallow end of the gene pool mutation - at best.
Freakin awesome....the simple way in which they controlled it.