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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2015, @01:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2015, @01:40PM (#232236)

    >I never got why robots should be humanoid anyway.

    ...

    >Why make a humanoid robot that controls a dredge, instead of a dredgeoid robot?

    Because the Human form gives you flexibility. That humanoid robot could control the dredge and then hop out and drive a fork lift ( without the owner having to buy a new "forkliftoid" ) and then move over to operate some other piece of gear originally designed for human workers. Having said that, I'm thinking that we'll end up with both your specialized 'oids and the humanoid models. The right tool for the right job as they say.