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Do you think we will all own robots in the near future?
Posted by BetsyIckes • 5/03/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: future, future science, robots, technology
As fast as our technology is evolving, do you think we all will own our own robot? I think that we will. Of course they will cost a mint, but like all things, they will come down in price once they become more mass produced!
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or maybe the robots will own us!-
Good point! Only time will tell!
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Kind of like Battlestar Galactica....great series by the way
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Exactly...I Robot predicts that we will become robots robots'
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I would love a Roomba...-
I doubt they work that well
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apparently they do...lots of disabled people are using them.
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really? how do they get into corners and stuff?
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not sure how they do the corners...but presumably they are quite powerful so being round isn't a problem. You programme in the dimensions of the rooms in your house and it makes sure it does the whole room and then goes back to it's station to recharge when it's finished!
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Have a friend who might think so.
He just blogged about a robot. Check it out. You'll get hooked.
neonjelloevangelist.blogspot.com/2009/05/robot-saga.html-
Cool! I just checked out! Do you remember Robbie the Robot as a kid?
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If you go on youtube you'd be surprised how much they have evolved!
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here's a video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vwZ5FQEUFg-
Another one that caught my eye was tis one on youtube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=78krbfy9hh0&NR=1
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I watched a documentary recently called "Where's my robot?" presented by a guy who wanted to know why the robot future he had been promised as a kid hadn't come about yet...
...apparently we're unlikely to have autonomous robots for a long long time because there is a lot more involved than just getting robots to walk. The intuitiveness in living creatures can't be created by a computer programme so you have to programme the robot to know how to do everything.
If you think about it, the simplest thing like picking up a glass of water is actually very complicated:
-you have to know what a glass is, and as humans we can recognise that something is a glass even if the shape or design is one we have never seen before, a computer can't.
-You have to know exactly how much pressure to apply when picking up the glass, too much and the glass will break, too little and you will drop it.
-You have to know how the water in the glass moves or the water will spill. We intuitively accommodate for the fact that we are jostling the glass by walking by keeping our arm moving, therefore pretty much cancelling out the effect on the glass.
You can't really teach these skills to a robot.-
Ahhhh Very well put! But again, I never put anything behind science! Things seem to develop at a lot faster pace over these past few years1
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You know, Im kind of waiting for robots to get here before I retire. I need some who will go to the grocery store and not whine about it!
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Not anytime soon. Each time robots get better, they put people out of work. The people are willing to work for less money, making it let profitable to generate the next generation of robots.
Countries like Japan are leading the way in robots (in part) because they have an aging society and do not want to let in too many foreigners. Therefore, they invest in robots. Other countries with a huge national pride and declining population may start following suit. Think Germany, Austria maybe Switzerland. -
I'm over 40, I expected robots and jet packs by now.
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One of my friends worked in the robotics devision for Sony Corp. too many glitches. But one day it will happen. Just not too sure about the arificial intellegence thing.
www.theage.com.au/news/technology/the-human-touch/2006/02/08/1139074278723.... -
Yes it will be a reality and I am sure newer models will be offered yearly.
I watch how man treats their pets.
They love to walk around town with their dogs on a leash so that they can be seen as a "somebody" in society.
Same as slavery, slave masters had slaves so that they can be looked upon as "somebody".
This status is always at the expense of the animal or the slave.
I watch like you too and I sometimes test things just to see where they would go but the older I become the simpler I've become, I no longer need all this shit that's being offered to me, they are like "Tonka Toys". However it would be cool to see what they develop. -
we will! tech are really growing so fast...robots are definitely taking over the working industry..its a matter of time when it reach our homes...reminds me of Irobot movie-
Yes it does. Hmmmm... Maybe someday we will work for the robots!
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Oh man - I still dont own an ipod or a PS3, and already theres talk of domestic robots. I need to seriously catch up on my technology -
polybore is a robot. -
I am worried about this. Science Fiction tells us robots are an impending sign of the end of humanity. Blade Runner, Battlestar Galactica, Terminator, AI.-
Hmmmmm... I think that it is the unknown that is the scarey part of this. I remember when computers were just beginning to take off and the movie 2001! HAL: "What are you doing David?"
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I dunno, I remember they said man would DEFINITELY 100% absolutely positively be living on mars by the late 80's. That didn't happen quite how they planned.
Flying cars were supposed to be darkening the skies a decade ago...that didn't seem to happen either.
So, I'm a little skeptical on the whole robot thing too. Maybe in 50 years.
Industrial robots are really a far cry from personal robots - they've got a long, long way to go.-
Remember the movie Total Recall? I'm glad we don't live on Mars! As a kid I was always reading sci-fi books on Mars!
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yep, took place in 2084....somehow I don't think we will have vacations to Mars by 2084 the way things are going now.
Hell, while technology has gone forward, our space program has gone BACKWARD! In 1969 we were bouncing around on the moon....now we are just in low orbit around the Earth. Sad.
I doubt if we will even get a person to Mars within the next 20 years.
Intelligent personal robots are likely just as far off as are Mars vacations.
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May be then Robots run the Blogs more intelligently:)-
Or may be they won't even need blogs! lol Just put a chip into our heads!
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As fast as ethics are evolving, we could soon be marrying robots.
media.www.dailyvidette.com/media/storage/paper420/news/2007/10/23/News/Huma... -
"Androids". Robots designed to look and act human. The construction of an android body is so complex, that we're probably another 50 - 100 years away from something that would be so incredibly life-like, that the real question is, or should be, "Will we fall in love with them?" Or, "Could YOU, fall in love with an Android?" Remembering of course, that at the peak of their perfection, they will have their own minds, just like us. Which means of course, that it will not be like falling in love with your car. But rather, with a real person that could at any moment, Snap!
Kinda puts a different light on the subject, doesn't it?
Or maybe not. As cookingasshole has already commented; "or maybe the robots will own us!"
Remember the Twilight Zone episode (The Lonely) of the guy who was imprisoned alone on a desolate planet? A supply ship left him a life-like "female" robot which he hated at first, but then, he would not return to civilization without her. www.imdb.com/title/tt0734656/
But I digress. My theory is this. The human body is so complex, that before we can create an actual working android body, we will have created "AI" (Artificial Intelligence). And that it will then be the Artificial Intelligence, that creates the android. ...Terminator!-
The Terminator was one of my favorite movies! All my life I have been fascinated with robots ever since I was pre teen! At one time when I was young, I wanted to get into robotic design, back in the late 70's.
Who knows where science will lead us! Now that they are learning to grow skin and other things! -
"he would not return to civilization without her"
You don't digress. Sci-fi in particular can be used to condition to future trends.
If we already have blockheads marrying dolls, then imagine human like androids...
nl.truveo.com/Guys-And-Dolls-Part-1/id/2388115876
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Yes, we will own simpler machines like programmable vacuum machines which will go around the house picking up dust, or automatic cooking machines. I don't think we'll own very complex robots initially. I think we will robots designed for very specific tasks.-
I'm still waiting for my cleaning robot! I hope I live long enough to own one ! LOL
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What will we do everyday if we share this world with robot..and the robot take our function as workers in all sector-
You know, America has already a problem of being over weight, I can't imagine if we had robots to do everything for us!
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Gosh, I hope so. A laundry folding, errand running robot who happens to look like Jason Statham..Yeah, baby!-
Hmmmm... What a novel concept!
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I'd love to have a robot that could do all my housework for me. Everyone knows that only the feeble minded (or electrically charged minded) can enjoy housework.-
You got that one right!
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All I know is I want one of these, pronto:
tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/138329-
Same here!
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