Talk:David Hanson (robotics designer)

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Self-promotion

This article really looks like self-promotion. I think a note should be put on top of it to notify readers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.36.11.103 (talk) 10:49, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to go in and attempt to fix anything on Wikipedia that's weakly sourced or that doesn't have a Neutral point of view. Rolf H Nelson (talk) 21:31, 20 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled

Old deletion debate: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/David Hanson (Sculptor/Robotics Researcher)

Zeno

There is nothing in here a about his Zeno robot, which was on CNN and NBC's today, etc. I know a little bit about this because my aunt's company SculptCad worked on Zeno and I touched the Zeno prototype's face many times, but never thought anything about it because I didn't know anything about it till I saw it on TV. I've never met David Hanson myself, but i've heard alot about him. My aunt also told me the guy who created Zeno's face (whom also was a modeler on Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius), died a few days ago shortly after completing Zeno.

Either way, to have the man himself grace himself this wikipedia article should be flattering, because it'd take joe-shmoe wikipedia editor probably years before they got that many facts about him. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.64.106.97 (talk) 06:03, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Overhaul

I've run roughshod through this article and its massive volume of blatant self-promotion, and I've tried to extract a standardized biography entry from the mess. I note that in all the many paragraphs listing Hanson's innumerable and stellar accomplishments, I was unable to find anything resembling a birthplace or birthdate.

The length of this article was excessive for the relatively unknown status of its subject, and the lionizing tone was overwhelming. I've tried to make it a bit more neutral, removing superlatives and lengthy details on trivial accomplishments, and getting down to the basic facts. It still needs some even more basic information, such as a birthday (we don't know when he was born, but we know he was married in a dinosaur footprint, at least in the original text). I need some fresh air after editing this article. Whew! Agateller 23:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Meaning?

The article describes his skin substitute as requiring "1¼20 less force" than human skin to move. What is meant by "1¼20"? And what's the source for this information? --LostLeviathan 03:22, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Random Picture?

What's with the random einstein picture?

A. That's a robot that the guy built.

To clarify this answer... The head is all that hanson developed... The body was from Korean robotics company that wanted an Einstein head on their robot.

If you look at the edit history, you find that this page was written by dayofid@hotmail.com, and if you email dayofid@hotmail.com, you find that it is David Hanson. In other words, David Hanson wrote most of the page on David Hanson. Then when you actually read what he wrote, you find that it sounds more like a public relations piece than an unbiased encyclopedia entry. -This was not signed but done by 68.88.70.21-

Agree. This does read and "feel" like a PR piece. I do however think he is notable. I will work on a revision. Been busy lately so if somebody else wants to take it up it would be appreciated.
From what I've read, he mainly does the physical stuff -faces, machinery, etc, and his collaborators do the AI. the article misleadingly implies that he does AI research, when he's more of a pure roboticist.Callivert 22:43, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please sign your posts by putting four "~"s at the end of your edit. Thanks. -- ×××jijin+machina | Chat Me!××× -- 01:41, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm concerned also that this article relays biased comparisons with other researchers, and is almost completely uncited. An uninvolved third party needs to write this article. 211.26.223.81 21:59, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is a "puff piece" written by David Hanson about himself to promote his product. DayOfId is David Hanson.

The article says "Dr. Hanson" - a doctor of what? MD? Electrical Engineering? Mechanical Engineering? A PhD in some field that has value with respect to cybernetics? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.198.148.91 (talk) 11:02, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, thank you. I did not know how to sign my comment, or exactly where to place my comment. I only added the new line because I thought it should be addressed in the article. I was not sure about the rules for editing a discussion page. Sincerely, 125.198.148.91

Assessment comment

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== Just a thought... ==

I know David Hanson well, and I am an advisor to his company, Hanson Robotics, Inc. Therefore, I cannot objectively edit this article. It seems to me that the admins currently debating this article's objectivity would be more useful if they were actually making the article more objective. There are literally hundreds of articles about David's work available in the popular press, so you have plenty of source material. For those admins who wonder why David's Einstein robot is pictured, I recommend you read the Wired cover story (January 2006) about it.

While you are busy making Wikipedia more objective, you might note that I (Dr. W. Joseph King) was a co-founder of F5 Networks, Inc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F5_Networks (which I cannot add to the article due to Wikipedia's objectivity rules). Note that most of the F5 article was lifted right off of their corporate website. Is it objective? Is it fair use? Is it correct? I seriously doubt it.

BTW, if you are tempted to respond to me with the open source lecture, note that I am the former executive director and a board member of Connexions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connexions. Therefore, I understand open publication. I am just bothered by the amount of bureaucracy that has developed at Wikipedia.

Jking@elgon.cc 01:35, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Substituted at 21:38, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

Terrorizing a mentally ill old man (Francis E. Dec) at his hospital bed

In 1995, David Hanson was involved in a group of three people who visited the hospital room of Francis E. Dec, an infamous old man who had long suffered from severe mental illness and delusions. Hanson and his cohort visited him in order to terrify him, pretending to be government agents. Hanson even initially wanted to throw a spider on Dec, but had to be talked out of it. This was all proudly admitted by his accomplice, Forrest Jackson, in this first-person account: http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/answers/articles2/X0026_Francis_Dec_article.html

Fortunately, it seems Francis Dec was nonresponsive and likely did not register their presence. (This was about a month before Dec died.) But Hanson and his cohort also apparently scared his brother Joseph I. Dec (discussed in the video linked below). To my knowledge, neither Hanson nor anyone else has ever denied that he committed these actions. He and his accomplices made a videotape of their visit to Dec, and sold the tape for some time thereafter. Maybe some of this should be in the article, insofar as sufficient sources can be found.

A recent YouTube video further discusses these events, in the section "Dec's Stalkers" (starts at 36:25): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPV0BU9Vbk8 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:6011:6601:900:D185:4704:B40B:9716 (talk) 08:10, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Robot

Would you take us little over the afternoon egg robotic suit They are coming. Albuquerque help to you 103.183.35.61 (talk) 18:51, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]