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Robot Assistants within 2-3 years
The Shadow Robot Company says a robotic arm to aid disabled people around the house could be completed within a year, and said a complete robot assistant could be ready in as little as 2-3 years and would probably cost about the same as a car, but payment plans could be set up. The current arm has 24 movements (compared to NASA’s arm with only 12) is the most advanced in the world, capable of handling anything a human hand can… including eggs, fruit, etc.
“The aim of this is to make a robot that’s helpful to a person that needs assistance on a daily basis, things that they could feel were too trivial or embarrassing to ask a person to help with.”
Along the same vein is a story where researchers demonstrate direct brain control of a humanoid robot at the University of Washington. At the moment only a few basic commands are available to make the robot move to a certain location and pickup a specific object, but the robot takes action based on the brain signals picked up from the human in control and is 94% accurate. Eventually, they hope to add more complex movements and control where the robots would still take action based on human thoughts, but it would also have more of it’s own self-learning and navigation.
“We want to get to the point of using actual objects that people might want the robot to gather, as well as having the robot move through multiple rooms.”
My personal thought, is that it would probably be better to have closet full of robotic assistants rather than clone slaves… or, is that robotic slaves and clone assistants?
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