Robot Servants Are Going to Make Your Life Easy

...Then Theyll Ruin It.

Well thats the opinion of Evan Selinger in a recent article for Wired. JIBO, the "worlds first family robot" is heralding an age where robots or digital personal assistants anticipate our needs and perhaps even start making decisions for us. Thats where Selinger believes the danger lies. Watch the JIBO promotional video below and make up your mind.


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Will a robot take your job

With robotic technology advancing at a pace there is the obvious prospect that robots will start to perform a wider range of services and tasks and not be limited to factory manufacturing as they are at the moment. A recent article in Wired called "Robots Will Steal Our Jobs, But They Will Give Us New Ones" makes the argument that although many current jobs will be taken by robots new opportunities will arise - the most obvious of which is servicing and maintaining all the robots. Incidentally the photo here is of a robot that can cook a hamburger and the Japanese have robots that can prepare Ramen noodles.

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Harvard Researchers Build 10 Robot

Theres been a lot of attention in the last year about various initiatives to encourage children to learn how to code; with new programming languages and of course the inexpensive and increasingly popular Raspberry Pi computer. To this we can now add a robot developed by Harvard University researchers that will cost just $10. The "Affordable Education Robot is a low-cost robot designed to introduce students of all ages to the fundamentals of programming and control of robots, with the hope of inspiring them to further pursue studies in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)." Learn more about this robot here.



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