This is so damned cool, I had to share:
From today’s NY Times: A story about South Korea’s plans for domestic robotics:
If all goes according to plan, robots will be in every South Korean household between 2015 and 2020.
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We’ll see how South Korea feels when the little mechanical bastards all line up and start intoning, “EXTERMINATE!! EXTERMINATE!!”
(Hmmm … maybe that’s Bush’s strategy … )
(Nah … too intelligent.)
I dunno. I’m all for jumping on the technical bandwagon, and I have to admit that several Asian countries are doing some really cool thing with technology today, but unless robotic technology comes a long way in the next 5-10 years, the robots will really be just glorified appliances. Of course, they’ll probably end up passing the Turing test.
PS: The robot picture looks like a pedal-powered cheap Vegas jackpot machine :D