Thursday, June 11, 2009

JAPAN: MOVING ROBOTS OUT OF THE FACTORY AND INTO THE HOME

Robots are developing new skills for human convenience (that is if anyone can consider the maintenance involved with new technologies convenient). There are even dancing robots though I doubt they will put anyone out of business in the performing arts. The are perfectly as coordinated as the Thunderbirds though they are unattractively walking as though they are all have a sore or tender crotch. Fortunately,. or unfortunately and

There are Robot of the Year Awards. 2007 saw this one.

A Japanese child robot mimics infant learning. As good as it was, it never tempted me for a second to tie myself to another human again. It is nice to see how quickly after the dog from Sony showed he could kick a soft ball across a room, a Robot has been taught to do playing hockey. So many functions are being duplicated so quickly. Self- locomotion will get to be a thing of the past. Everyone will go about (at all ages) trying to make life work. All physical tasks shall be done by robots to free humans to go work to perspire considerably at expensive gyms.

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