hand-built fortune telling robot
every sunday there is a guy with fortune telling robot on the place opposite of the main entrance of russell market in Bangalore. Apparently (the guy does not really speak english) the robot is about 5 years old, was built by someone from ‘down south’ who also supplies the tapes with the fortunes on them. against a small contribution the robot will tell fortunes in one of four 4 different languages (hindi, tamil, kannada & telgu) through headphones that are attached to its body.
i could not find out more about the function of the clock that is attached to the body of the robot. the owner just told me that it is a clock and ‘tells the time’ which makes it a truly multi purpose robot: telling both fortune and time)
Technorati Tags: india, market, technology, religion, bangalore
November 24th, 2005 at 19.26
Hello……have seen this elsewhere in the state of Tamilnadu too. Always thought it as a bit of a prank…..but there are people who actually get their fortunes told by this “Robot”!!.
November 24th, 2005 at 20.00
That guy is hot.
November 24th, 2005 at 20.01
I wonder why the robot had a clock in its crotch.
November 25th, 2005 at 00.40
That’s its biological clock.
November 25th, 2005 at 01.34
These are pretty common all over India. Especially on beaches, local fairs and similar spots.
December 2nd, 2005 at 18.21
This is very common all over india. Parrots (live) are also used for picking up cards to read fortunes…
December 16th, 2005 at 16.51
[...] … is what time-out bombay calls the fortune telling robots that i had blogged a three weeks ago. they have a little piece on one of the robot operators in todays edition and their robot appa [...]
April 3rd, 2006 at 23.48
[...] Um robô feito manualmente e que lê o destino… [...]
December 25th, 2006 at 00.17
[...] An intrepid reader sends us this one: every sunday there is a guy with fortune telling robot on the place opposite of the main entrance of russell market in Bangalore. Apparently (the guy does not really speak english) the robot is about 5 years old, was built by someone from ‘down south’ who also supplies the tapes with the fortunes on them. against a small contribution the robot will tell fortunes in one of four 4 different languages (hindi, tamil, kannada & telgu) through headphones that are attached to its body. [ link ] [...]
August 3rd, 2007 at 06.13
why?
October 2nd, 2007 at 09.30
Dears
Iam really interested in this kind of future telling
Iwant to know the technology and manufactarers in India/Karnataka/Bangalore
and few names, adresses of the this robot charmers
Dr. Vivek
March 25th, 2008 at 03.29
that’s really wonderful!! this is really amazing work!!
February 4th, 2012 at 06.23
[...] robots’ wisdom, apparently, comes on prerecorded tapes, audio fortune cookies that foresee the future in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, and Telgu. Not having [...]
February 9th, 2012 at 15.40
[...] robots’ wisdom, apparently, comes on prerecorded tapes, audio fortune cookies that foresee the future in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, and Telgu. Not having [...]