Awesome Stuff: Where's My Personal Robot?
from the calling-rosie dept
It’s 2015 already. Aren’t we supposed to have personal robots like Rosie from the Jetsons already? Instead, what do we have? Vacuum cleaners that mosey around the house? For this week’s awesome stuff, let’s look at three interesting robotics crowdfunding projects:
- Personal Robot
- Luna
- Quirkbot
Filed Under: awesome stuff, personal robots, robots
Comments on “Awesome Stuff: Where's My Personal Robot?”
I was about to complain about how you spelled Rosey’s name, but according to Wikipedia they actually did change the spelling to “Rosie” later on. Huh. Learn something new every day.
"PLAY" button doesn't go away
I’ve noticed over the last while that I no longer have the option to enlarge these videos, or go to the source. The control bar has also disappeared.
Now, the play button in the center sits there while the video plays.
I’ve tried using 3 other browsers, but the experience is identical.
Am I missing something?
Re: "PLAY" button doesn't go away
Seeing the same problem with Firefox and Midori on Both Debian Wheezy and PCLinuxOS.
Re: "PLAY" button doesn't go away
Same problem here with an older version of Firefox.
Sometimes I think the whole robot problem is creepy because: Seriously? You can’t do that yourself?
Fake
That Personal Robot is a complete fake. Technology can do a FEW of the things they show, but even the latest tech driven by supercomputers can’t do a bunch of what’s in the video. It’s a clear scam.
Re: Fake
I don’t think anything shown is that far off. Can you explain what you believe isn’t possible?
Re: Re: Fake
The voice recognition in the video is FAR beyond SIRI or Cortana or the Google chick (what’s her name) despite not being hooked to a supercomputer to do the recognition like SIRI/Cortana/what’s-her-face, and the responses to said voice recognition is FAR beyond what IBM has achieved using their latest supercomputers.
It had access to personal info that exceeds what the government has, and processed it into meaningful responses faster than a team of experts, something computers still can’t do at all, much less as fast as shown in the video.
Even the voice synthesis was a little too good – clearly an actor reading lines rather than real speech synthesis. The video is clearly faked, and what people will receive is a roomba with an Android tablet on it that works like a bad copy of SIRI.
At least the japs will be buying this by the dozens…
The only thing the “personal robot” will end being is a printer. Of dollar bills. For the developers.
How did such an obvious con get past so many people? One has to wonder.
Personal Robot
“She can be a security system, watching every room of your home. Well, except for the rooms upstairs, and the basement, and your sunken living room with the two steps down…”
When they showed the part where it interrupted the meeting to remind him about a date, I couldn’t help thinking of an alternate scenario;
“Sorry to interrupt guys. Thomas, your subscription to the Burly Leather Man website is about to expire. Do you want to authorize a renewal? Also, your package from Big Jim’s Toys for Boys has just been delivered.”
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I really like the idea, and we can see it happening before our eyes, that robots or automated appliances are coming more and more into our lives. The market for those is still very limited but in a few years I hope the technology will become cheaper.
RE:
wow why aren’t we funding this?!