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HOUSING MINISTER EOGHAN Murphy is now six weeks into the job he inherited from Simon Coveney, one of the more thankless roles in Government.
In an interview with yesterday’s Sunday Business Post, Murphy outlined something he says he sees as key to solving the property crisis being seen in the capital – the construction of high-rise properties in Dublin city centre.
“We have to go higher, particularly in Dublin city, particularly within the canals, and we have to go for an increased density,” he said.
The building of high-rises in Dublin has been a contentious subject for years – but given the sheer scale of the current housing crisis in the country, is it time for Ireland’s main city to finally bite the bullet and go higher?
We’re asking: Is it finally time that Dublin went high-rise?
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This wont end well. Have they not seen the movie Alien.
@Niallers: HAL 9000
@SFNutters: IG-88
@Means of escape: it looks a lot like the chappiee bot.
@Means of escape: or Android (the 1982 film with Klaus Kinsky) or even Saturn 3 (also released in 1982, with Kirk Douglas and Harvey Kitel).
@David Jordan: Prefer the real steel robot/cobot.
@Niallers: beat me to it :D
Have ye not seen 2001? What could possibly go wrong HAL? ‘I am afraid I can’t tell you, John.’
@willow moon: An interesting fact about HAL in 2001 A Space Oddessy. The acronym HAL is IBM shifted one letter forwards. However this was a complete coincidence. Arthur C Clarke (the author) never knew this until a fan pointed out out years later.
@Paraic: one letter backwards
@SFNutters: Meant to say: “HAL is IBM WHEN shifted one letter forwards”. Typo.
Danger Will Robinson, Danger!
@Leroy Brown: lol lost in space tv programme
A robot in space ummm. A Russian robot, christ
@Tommy C: it’s a robot.. but its russian… my gawd!
Ed-209: “Please put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply.”
I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.
Will he be back?
Really like this cobot as its human mimic controlled. I wonder how big the time delay is and how they plan to overcome this in realtime control.
@Simon O Flaherty: the minimum lag could be as little as 0.24 second to the ISS but likely longer as the instructions would he complicated. Still basically immediate control. Here is an article I got the answer from https://www.wired.com/2013/02/a-duet-from-space/
@Edmund Murphy: Interesting article, thanks.
It’s ok though, battery technology is still too primitive so he will need to be plugged in to the mains. Just unplug it if it misbehaves.
Once robots have long lasting power sources though, that’s a different story.
This robot can’t even stand. If you look at it well it held by 2 ropes.
@Oleksandr Savitskyy: it is designed to operate in a zero gravity environment where launch weight is a major issue. I’m surprised they even bothered to give it legs and not a second set of hands. Not being able to stand is no issue.
I hope he doesn’t do a Hal 9000 on them!
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