Comments on: The leader of the robot pack

Could a Roomba be a "physical avatar"? iRobot CEO Colin Angle talks about this and other possibilities in the growing robotics market.

[technewsjunkie]

The Terminator! I'll be back...

I love robots! Always have, since "Mr Machine" as a twerp;-)

I'm thrilled about this company and what they have done in making
robotics accessable to households.

Imagine the future. This could be the Microsoft of robotics.
Cyberdyne Systems!

[technewsjunkie]

The Japanese are investing heavily in Robots!

Watchout America! The Japanese have been investing heavily in
"human" and consumer applications robotics for years.

The market for consumer-electronics-household robotics will get
much, much bigger.

Do a Google on "Japanese Robotics".

[BMR777]

What was that movie? - IRobot!

Isn't it funny that there is a company called IRobot creating robots to "better our lives" and "help the military" and there also was a hit movie called "IRobot" where the Robots tried to take over the world? To be fair, the robotics company in the movie was "USRobotics", but even that is an actual company that makes modems and other stuff. This is just a little too freaky for me. If anyone ever makes a robot look human for real, and become available to the public we are all screwed! At least there is no V.I.K.I yet...or is there?

BMR777
http://www.rusnakweb.com

[bdennis410]

Hardware or software?

I love the idea, the concept, of robots!
The real development of robots depends on the software needed for the device to accomplish it's job. In the future there will be extremely mechanically sophisticated devices whose "software" will be the human brain guiding the object by remote control, maybe with an MRI type device "reading" the orders of the "driver."
But some mechanically sophisticated devices will be autonomous through the operation of the self-contained, somewhat AI software; an "if this, then that" program, even software which allows for unanticipated circumstances and makes appropriate "decisions" by choosing from commands in it's program(s).
I can't wait for more and better. So much of human existance could be radically improved with robotics; for menial chores, for crop harvesting, for street sweeping, for AI medical expertise through "learning" we can improve our diagnostic and treatment capability ten-fold. Through robot nanotechnology we can clean arteries, repair, organs, clean dendrites from alzheimers patients; the future is limitless!
Let's roll!

[Johnny Mnemonic]

Forgive me.

But your knowledge of the subject matter seems to be
gleened from science fiction rather than science
fact.