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Robots to the Rescue Increase of robots in every day life
Robots to the Rescue There's been a flurish of articles focused on robots recently, notably one at Technology Review called Robots to the Rescue. It discusses how experts predict an important increase of robots within local rescue forces, as soon as 2005. Competitions such as the "IJCAI Robot Rescue" and "Robocup" are intended to incite research in this area. Where a market groes, money flows. And this one is no exception: sony sees a robot family in every home in the medium term future, as described in this article on Yahoo News. With the mobility of robots increasing rapidly, the major problem with current generations is their dependance on human control. A lot of effort is being put into artificially intelligent navigation: interpretation of camera vision and sensor data is an interesting field of robotics that attracts a fair amount of funding. It should be interesting to watch this unfold, although I'm pecimistic about the time-scales of a few years commonly predicted! | Alex J. Champandard 934 posts. Tuesday 18 September, 17:15 Reply