Daily Mail
Out: Robots. In: Roboy?
‘Thanks to his construction as a tendon-driven robot modelled on human beings (‘normal’ robots have their motors in their joints), Roboy moves almost as elegantly as a human,’ the team claim.
‘Our aging population is making it necessary to keep older people as autonomous as possible for as long as possible, which means caring for aged people is likely to be an important area for the deployment of service robots.
‘We can very safely assume that service robots will become part of our environment in the future, as is already the case today for technologies such as smartphones and laptops.’
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So Skynet will become self-aware a few years later than was stated by Sarah, no big deal.
I’m not eating rat meat though, so the kid clanging around the human bolthole can keep his rodent.
Bishop on December 27, 2012 at 10:28 PM
Sandusky will be pleased; but what about the rest of us?
lorien1973 on December 27, 2012 at 10:34 PM
Siri on the Apple iPhone and iPad come in very handy…somewhat of a personal secretary.
Big potential for things like this.
albill on December 28, 2012 at 7:17 AM