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The Robot Revolution Has Snuck Up On Us

posted by martyb on Friday September 04 2015, @07:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the What-would-you-call-a-machine-that-paddles-a-boat-for-you?--A-rowbot! dept.

microtodd writes:

A while back we discussed robot furniture. Now a restaurant in San Francisco is trying to build and run a restaurant run entirely by robots. Now granted, these are not robots like in Asimov's Robot Series. Instead of humanoid-style robots, these are highly specialized, single-purpose machines.

I can foresee a future populated by many, many robots, in which we didn't notice that we were surrounded by them — we were looking for Rosie the Robot and instead got inconspicuous robots that act as automated furniture and interactive surroundings.

What do my fellow Soylenters think? Are we on the verge of a "Robot Revolution" — even if it doesn't look like how 50s sci-fi imagined it would?

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  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday September 04 2015, @09:37AM

    by isostatic (365) on Friday September 04 2015, @09:37AM (#232184) Journal

    Not sure where you get that from? Firstly you assume I hate the nsa (I expect them to spy on me, it's their job), secondly that I approve of the singularity crap.

    Not sure what would be better, but it seems clear the best bet would be the austrailia thing without the implant.

    I do like austrailia though. Probably a good place to emigrate too to try and avoid the worst of what's to come in this century.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by deimtee on Friday September 04 2015, @12:05PM

    by deimtee (3272) on Friday September 04 2015, @12:05PM (#232203) Journal

    I do like austrailia though. Probably a good place to emigrate too to try and avoid the worst of what's to come in this century.

    Strewth mate! You haven't seen the bloody robot spiders we're going to get when the singularity hits. Not to mention the bloody rocket-assisted drop-bears.

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