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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: 2) by darkfeline on Friday September 04 2015, @11:01PM
It's an API problem. Humanoid robots will be able to use everything designed with a human API. Thus, we will only ever have to design things with a human API, instead of both a robot API and a human API for override or emergency purposes. Plus, it makes the robots backward-compatible with all of our previous infrastructure which has been designed for humans.
API lock-in is an issue even in physical space.
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