Chinese Farmer Builds an "Army" of Robots

Dyndrilliac · 11-27-2008, 05:04 PM

I found the article on Slashdot, but their summaries generally suck - so here is the original article.

It mentions he may end up selling some of his robots because he ended up spending a large majority of his monthly income on their construction and plunged his family into debt. I wonder why he just doesn't get an engineering job building robots? It mentions he lacks all but a basic education, but surely innate talent is more useful in many cases than some fancy piece of paper that tells someone you tricked your way through some school program...

JeweyK · 11-27-2008, 05:22 PM

Wow. Technology has come a long way.

I'm surprised he hasn't built death robots and just take over a bank or something.

Funny how some guy with basic education can do what people with degrees are doing in America.

Dyndrilliac · 11-27-2008, 05:29 PM

I consider it proof that the Chinese (and asians in general) are intimately better genetically equipped for engineering.

Eppie · 11-27-2008, 05:37 PM

That's pretty ****ing cool.

MiCrOz · 11-27-2008, 06:37 PM

Wish they had pics of the other robots. Still pretty cool though.

lpxxfaintxx · 11-27-2008, 06:41 PM

Better articles:

Rural Inventor Wu Yulu
People's Daily Online -- This farmer grows robots

Dyndrilliac · 11-27-2008, 07:05 PM

Good links. It's people like this guy that truly deserve educations. Imagine the advances that could be made in robotics if people that are naturally talented enough to make fairly sophisticated robots with fifth grade educations and living in some of the most rural areas of the world went to some place like CalTech or MIT.

Mad3711 · 11-27-2008, 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Dyndrilliac

I consider it proof that the Chinese (and asians in general) are intimately better genetically equipped for engineering.

My theory is that in countries with a population that high the odds that someone will be born that is gifted in a certain area are much greater.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dyndrilliac

Good links. It's people like this guy that truly deserve educations. Imagine the advances that could be made in robotics if people that are naturally talented enough to make fairly sophisticated robots with fifth grade educations and living in some of the most rural areas of the world went to some place like CalTech or MIT.

QFT

cala4 · 11-27-2008, 11:57 PM

He should definitely get an education in robotics.

Aberrant · 11-28-2008, 12:34 AM

Would be nice if someone from a top school saw that and gave him a scholarship. The advancements could be amazing.

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MiCrOz Senior Member Mod preview Enlightened Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Cherry Hill, NJ Posts: 2,662	Wish they had pics of the other robots. Still pretty cool though.
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