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01-03-2007, 01:19 PM
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A "must-have" for everyone!
This is definitely going on my Christmas Wish List!
 We've had Robo-cop and Robo-pigeon, now we've got Robo-butler. The futuristic humanoid, which has cameras for eyes, can pour and serve tea with all the efficiency of a trained servant. The metallic man-about-the-house has even been programmed to do the dishes. 'A human being may be faster, but you'd have to say thank you,' said Tokyo University professor Tomomasa Sato, who helped develop the humanoid, made by Kawada Industries. A human being may be faster, but you'd have to say thank you 'That's the best part about a robot. You don't have to feel bad about asking it to do things.' Prof Sato believes Japan, a rapidly aging society with more than a fifth of its population over 65, will lead the world in designing robots to care for the elderly, sick and bedridden. | ||||||||
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01-03-2007, 08:37 PM
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That's a bit freaky really. The first thing I thought of when I read that article was about the film with Robin Williams in where he was a robot looking after a family and he outlived them but the journey inbetween was quite disturbing in parts. It was called Bicentennial Man.
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Quite agree with you. Knowing my luck it would go schizo on me like the robots in I, Robot. So for the moment I think I will stick to gadgets that don't think for themselves like my dishwasher etc.
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