# Need help finding a thread/link (need answer soon-ish)

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**Created:** [August 27, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-finding-a-thread-link-need-answer-soon-ish/632855 "2012-08-27T20:49:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-finding-a-thread-link-need-answer-soon-ish/632855/1 "2012-08-27T20:49:33Z")

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Once upon a time in a thread, I think in GD somebody posted a link to a really cool robot from a German university. It was a BBC mini-documentary. The robot was able to infer that a three legged stool was a chair, despite not having seen a three-legged chair before. I believe the robot was named ASIMOV.

The thread isn’t important, it was just a random post in a random AI thread I can’t find. The link is really what I need.

Unfortunately for me “Asimov” and “robot” is a bit of a broad search space.

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**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-finding-a-thread-link-need-answer-soon-ish/632855/2 "2012-08-27T20:52:32Z")

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Nevermind, it was in the thread I thought it was in. It was named ASIMO, the link was this one:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0aCI17ws0m8/hqdefault.jpg "Asimo & James May") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aCI17ws0m8)