A robot in every home in South Korea by 2020?

[RAMA]

This idea has existed for a long time. Bill Gates is suggesting 2025 is a realistic date for robots in every US home. AI is already present in most homes through various software, but a moving, humanoid-like robot that completes tasks? Various efforts are moving in this direction, but perhaps S. Korea, along with it's "second miracle" will be the first to have a Samsung robot in every home.

http://hplusmagazine.com/2010/03/26/samsung-robot-every-home-2020/

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-robot-in-every-home/

 

[bbjeg]

If you can't have sex with it, I don't care.

If I was a leader, I'll have a sex bot in every home by 2020.

 

[Kemaiku]

If you can't have set with it, I don't care.

I'm pretty sure most of them will come as sets.

 

[bbjeg]

^Typo.

 

[Yoda]

Robot in every home? So what's the projected year for Skynet and the apocalypse?

Anyway good on Korea, seems like my kind of country, where my Starcraft skills would be properly appreciated. It's just too bad about the kimchi and the language barrier

 

[RAMA]

Robot in every home? So what's the projected year for Skynet and the apocalypse?

Anyway good on Korea, seems like my kind of country, where my Starcraft skills would be properly appreciated. It's just too bad about the kimchi and the language barrier

Well mathematically speaking, that date is set around 2045. However, Skynet and the Terminator scenario is hopelessly simplistic except to tell a really good action story.

Are the Robots about to Rise? An article about Kurzweil at Google:

http://www.theguardian.com/technolo...erminator-singularity-artificial-intelligence

RAMA

 

[Into Darkness]

They should be working towards holodecks, not fricking Robocop!

 

[YellowSubmarine]

People don't have robots in their homes already? How quaint. I program my computer to filter my mail, to arrange it into folders for me, to dig out the important messages, to break the law for me when I am not at home, to wake me in the morning, to order me pizza, to categorize my files. These are tasks more difficult than cleaning my room (I have my chimp for that), do you dismiss him just because he doesn't have a body? I can make him one out of lego easily. Besides, he can salute me by extending a cup holder. That counts as a body in my book.

 

[scotpens]

Humanoid robots, if they ever come to pass, will be little more than expensive toys. Just like phone communication with two-way, real-time video, they're an idea that's "futuristic" for futuristic's sake -- never mind practical necessity.

 

[JarodRussell]

Haha, if there's a robot in every home in South Korea, all North Korea has to do is to get a couple of good hackers to overthrow the country.

 

[PurpleBuddha]

Humanoid robots, if they ever come to pass, will be little more than expensive toys. Just like phone communication with two-way, real-time video, they're an idea that's "futuristic" for futuristic's sake -- never mind practical necessity.

Well at the level robotics are at now, even with some pretty decent jumps forward I would completely agree. These would be a novelty.

However, if they can ever build one smart enough with the right level of dexterity to vacuum, do the dishes, iron, clean up, mow the lawn, and other like tasks, then they become so much more than a novelty. I think such robots will be possible one day, but certainly not by 2020.

 

[Jonas Grumby]

Humanoid robots, if they ever come to pass, will be little more than expensive toys. Just like phone communication with two-way, real-time video, they're an idea that's "futuristic" for futuristic's sake -- never mind practical necessity.

This is probably true. From my own POV, I'd much rather have compact, unobtrusive, dedicated devices designed to do specific, useful tasks extremely well than some bulky, lumbering, jack-of-all-trades (master-of-none?) ersatz butler wandering around my house.

 

[scotpens]

. . . From my own POV, I'd much rather have compact, unobtrusive, dedicated devices designed to do specific, useful tasks extremely well than some bulky, lumbering, jack-of-all-trades (master-of-none?) ersatz butler wandering around my house.

Exactly. Machines, by their nature, are specialized. As I've pointed out before, the idea of a robot maid pushing a vacuum cleaner is silly -- when the vacuum cleaner itself can be a robot. Same for a robotic lawnmower.

But robot domestics are cute.

 

[PurpleBuddha]

Yeah, but I want one that can clean up my rooms too! If they can do that, they may as well push a vacuum around, do the dishes and cook for me too. No need to build a special robot to do each of those (lots of machines to manage too), we simply need a very advanced humanoid form robot. I don't see it any time soon.