My company won’t let me drop in the link script so I hope this works.

I was trying to figure out what the Robot equivalent to MEChA would be, but I’m stumped.

The Monster on June 21, 2007 at 10:46 PM

I’d say it would be very similar…MECH-a.

So, who does Japan expect to oil all those machines?

Obviously, the robots will have to oil each other, or oil themselves. Either one just sounds… wrong.

Then the Robots get angry

Next thing you know, the earth is under the cloud of Nuclear winter and radioactive fallout, and Humans are being used for power generation while floating in tanks of nutrient goo all networked together, and only Keanu Reeves can save us.

Way to go Kawada Industries.

Right up there with “The Weyland-Yutani Company”

or Omni Consumer products

Perhaps Cyberdyne systems

or maybe the ever popular Umbrella Corporation (Though they’re really more about bio-science rather than Robots, they did create some evil AIs who liked to dice humans up with lasers.)

Neither bad nor good — just an observation on changes that will occur to societies that are thousands of years old. None of us will be around to see the changes – will take four or five generations and will be incremental.

Bradky on June 21, 2007 at 6:55 PM

What’s worrisome is the pressure to deal with all the aged – the solution of not enough young people to support the infirm. Abortion and birth control on one end, assisted suicide, whether the person in question wants it or not. Without any tradition of the sanctity of life, maybe it isn’t “Robots” but *gack* “Logan’s Run” for the future. COurse, we don’t know what kind of immigrants are coming in and how that wild card is going to affect demographics.

Nobody wants to give John Edwards any money. [Wizbang Politics] He’d probably do better charging people to hear what he thinks instead of just giving all his opinions away for free. [Fresh Intelligence] Just how many child molesters are……

Conversely, I’m preparing for “Bladerunner” duty if anything goes wrong.

liquidflorian on June 21, 2007 at 6:25 PM

My thoughts exactly. When will they become advanced enough for us to ask them if they dream of electric sheep?

Coming much sooner than 2019, fortunately: For (slightly) less futuristic news from the cybernetics industry, click here…….

A little short for a stormtrooper.

naliaka on June 21, 2007 at 6:47 PM

Many countries in Europe are facing similar problems. China has trouble finding enough women for its (one child rule and resulting infantacide of mostly female babies) men to marry.
For both of these countries opening up the doors to immigration to make up some ground for its declining population will mean large changes in the culture. Both are pretty homogenous cultures and since many of the immigrants will be females, the expected role of raising children will fall under their influence.
Neither bad nor good — just an observation on changes that will occur to societies that are thousands of years old. None of us will be around to see the changes – will take four or five generations and will be incremental.

Why should we force poor immigrants to do those nasty jobs that Americans won’t do?

How big a leap would robotics take once people started investing in the technology for this purpose?

They already have! They already have!!!!

You know, along those lines; you know how much better the “world wide web” got when pornographers discovered they could use it to generate revenue. That same logic could apply. How big a leap would robotics take once people started investing in the technology for this purpose?

Preachin’ to the choir over here. I’m all about the fembots.