Dreaming of electric sheep
The fantasy of having your own robot is nothing new and while efforts to distil this fantasy into a reality have come and gone I woke up this morning and Sam my robot butler was still not waiting to hand me my newspaper.
Don’t you think we must be close?
The only thing stopping us from making human beings from scratch is ethics yet the robotic helpers that countless cartoons promised me through my childhood have yet to appear. Or have they?
For the more serious minded the ER1 is a reasonable contender. With a lot of work you can program it to get you a beer. This thing called the Roomba can randomly crash around your room while you are at work and do a reasonable job vacuuming but even with the optional remote control (In case you want to feel like you contributed SOMETHING to the cleanliness of your room) it still isn’t what I pictured.
Then came the Robosapien. I’m still coming to terms with the name. It’s hinting at being a little cool and verging dangerously on the kind of names 12 year old boys taunt each other with.
I recognise the early adopter frenzy in the way this guy has written his review of the Robosapien but on watching the attached Robosapien music video (that’s going a little far dude) I’m not convinced. If version two can do some real dance steps like the moonwalk and can actually catch cats rather than just feed them… then we’re talking real benefit to society. (just kidding - I'd settle for the macarena)
Don’t you think we must be close?
The only thing stopping us from making human beings from scratch is ethics yet the robotic helpers that countless cartoons promised me through my childhood have yet to appear. Or have they?
For the more serious minded the ER1 is a reasonable contender. With a lot of work you can program it to get you a beer. This thing called the Roomba can randomly crash around your room while you are at work and do a reasonable job vacuuming but even with the optional remote control (In case you want to feel like you contributed SOMETHING to the cleanliness of your room) it still isn’t what I pictured.
Then came the Robosapien. I’m still coming to terms with the name. It’s hinting at being a little cool and verging dangerously on the kind of names 12 year old boys taunt each other with.
I recognise the early adopter frenzy in the way this guy has written his review of the Robosapien but on watching the attached Robosapien music video (that’s going a little far dude) I’m not convinced. If version two can do some real dance steps like the moonwalk and can actually catch cats rather than just feed them… then we’re talking real benefit to society. (just kidding - I'd settle for the macarena)
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