He is pleased with the progress that?s been made and optimistic that a prototype could be commercialized in the near future.
Is the Dream of Having a Robot Companion Over? Not by a Long Shot!
Apparently, a fair amount of talk at this week’s European service robot gathering, Innorobo, concerned whether or not a Jetson’s Rosie or a Forbidden Planet-like Robby companion robot is a dream worth pursuing or even possible in the foreseeable future, prompting the above headline to appear atop a BBC article about the event. True, the…
The New iPad: Why Telepresence Device Makers Should be Afraid
In fact, that?s exactly what Cupertino?s much-hyped product release provides: telepresence on the cheap. Yes, you need a person to carry the iPad from room to room or focus its high-def video camera on a patient in a hospital or at the innards of a complicated machine tool that needs repair by an expert half…
“It’s About the User, Not the Robot”
Often the comparison is made between the robotics industry today and the personal computer industry of 25 or more years ago. Back then, computers were expensive, and they came with glaring white or amber all-text screen interfaces that only a die-hard geek could love. Speaking at the Human-Robotics Interaction (HRI) 2012 conference in Boston this…