Re: Humanoid Robots on the Mass Market

From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Mon May 22 2000 - 20:07:05 MDT


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In a message dated Mon, 22 May 2000 6:44:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> writes:

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I'm not expecting household-usable robot products before 2010. Floor
cleaners will mostl likely come first, will be just a box on wheels,
and they will be considerably cheaper than a car.

Franklin Wayne Poley writes:
> Honda alone has spent $100 m. to develop its humanoid series so I think

100 megabucks is a drop in the sea when it comes to developing robust
robotics.

> Japan is poised to put automobile-priced humanoid robots on the mass
> market. How do you think this will change human society when we are

Japan has pioneered some remarkably audacious and unremarkably failing
projects in the past.

> interacting on a daily basis with a class of humanoid mechanical slaves?
> It is going to happen soon.

Yes, so what.
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