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Monday, July 14, 2008

Care-O-bots

R2 it's not... But it's a start:

Who doesn’t long for household help at times? Service robots will soon be able to relieve us of heavy, dirty, monotonous or irksome tasks.

The one-armed robot glides slowly to the kitchen table. With its three fingers, it carefully picks up the bottle of apple juice and puts it next to the glasses on the tray in front of it. Then it glides back into the lounge and serves the drinks to the guests. This is how artificial assistants might work in future. Only 1.45 meters high, Care-O-bot® 3 is the prototype of a new generation of service robots designed to help humans in the household.

Household, schmousehold... That "monotonous or irksome tasks" bit sounds like they may be building a robot that would go to work for me. For that I'd pay good coin.

3 Comments:

Blogger The Mad Builder of Periwinkle said...

Ya' know...one day they're getting your beer and the next day they'll be herding you into Human Concentration Camps...for your own protection...because they "Care" about your safety.

Time to break out "How to Survive a Robot Uprising" and find your old copies of the Tom Selleck movie Runaway which is now available on DVD BTW.

Between zombies and renegade robots...the future could be quite challenging. :/

10:29  
Blogger davis14633 said...

I think the real question you should be asking is..Can you have sex with it? Because once scientists and engineers invent a sex robot, society will collapse back into the dark ages, as all geeks will stop working to get some action.

10:56  
Blogger The Mad Builder of Periwinkle said...

So if you can't fight 'em, Fu...well you get the idea.

Well according to the Canadians 'In 5 years, people will be having sex with robots'

You know I've always wondered what what it was that caused the collapse of civilization in the movie Cherry2000, now I know!

11:58  

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