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Vandals & Nurses UK Bots in Demand
Vandals & Nurses The Guardian has an article describing the next generation of robotic hospital helpers -- Carry on, Nurse Robot (obviously, everyone is trying to get their hands on that fresh cash allocated to the UK's health system ;) Anyway, she's got a smidgen of sense of humour, though most would laugh at how bad her jokes are. Eventually, creators hope she'll be able to analyse human moods. The remaining part of the features mainly compared Pearl to Kismet, a better looking, more sociable robot. Which links nicely into the next article; Science Friday also happens to have a feature on Kismet: Humans and their Machines, though the website simply has a couple pictures. Finally, the robotic thief discussed on BBC News. This is somewhat a brute force robot, mostly consisting of a big piston; Robot 'vandal' tackles ATMs. It aims to simulate attacks on cash-points, in order to build them more reliably. Though I'm convince there are probably more subtle ways of doing it -- like the recent wafer-thin piece of plastic trick... | Alex J. Champandard 935 posts. Monday 29 April, 17:10 Reply