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martyb
on Friday September 04 2015, @07:37AM
from the What-would-you-call-a-machine-that-paddles-a-boat-for-you?--A-rowbot! dept.
from the What-would-you-call-a-machine-that-paddles-a-boat-for-you?--A-rowbot! dept.
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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The Robot Revolution Has Snuck Up On Us
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday September 04 2015, @03:15PM
Voice-recognition telephone systems DO NOT RESPOND TO MY VOICE.
"Thank you for calling Acer Customer Service. To get you started, please tell us how we can help you."
"Technical support."
"You sound like you're trying to order a pizza. May we suggest our extra-spicy buffalo wings."
ProTip: This doesn't happen when I speak on the phone to homo sapiens.
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