From: Franklin Wayne Poley (culturex@vcn.bc.ca)
Date: Mon May 22 2000 - 20:53:27 MDT
OK...how close you you think the best of world technology could get to
"Bender" if you were CEO and could direct the spending of $100 b. or
$100 t. over the next decade?
FWP.
On Mon, 22 May 2000 Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> See Futurama: Sunday Nights at Fox at 7pm Character: Bender
>
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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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