Thursday, January 05, 2012

Current androids

So it seems this is the current state of the art of androids (humanoid robots). I dunno. Perhaps better than I had expected. But I wonder if it'll go like with Virtual Reality: twenty years ago it seemed to be a field on fire, getting close to the real thing Very Soon... and then we've barely heard a peep about it since.

I wonder if androids will ever become really useful, or perhaps as relevant, if they'll become cost efficient. If one could replace a delivery man, but cost a hundred million and breaks down five times a day...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I wonder if androids will ever become really useful, or perhaps as relevant, if they'll become cost efficient. If one could replace a delivery man, but cost a hundred million and breaks down five times a day...

It strikes me this might have been an argument made in the early days of computers. Now they're cheap and powerful and used everywhere.

I would prefer them to be more like the droids in Star Wars, though, who had no rights and were treated like shit. Give them rights, like Data in Star Trek, and might be going down the road that leads to Skynet.