Re: 6 S's of Capable Home Robots

Nice list, but it is much easier said than done. I do disagree with
one comment;

"There is absolutely no reason why we can't have capable robot in our
homes TODAY. "

Many have tried, but it is certainly proving harder than it was first
thought. On the drive to work, I've been listening to Podcasts of old
radio broadcasts of science fiction stories from the 40's and 50's.
They really were expecting us to have farms on mars, and robots doing
all our housework by the 80's.

I suspect that, for the near future, the only things we can really
hope for, will be a practical robot vacuum and a lawn mower. This just
requires a bit more capability than current similar products; things
like more navigational certainty, and visual processing to avoid
obstacles. Autonomous robot airplanes for the military are relatively
easy, since there is nothing for them to bump into.

Although true autonomous robots are a problem, I suspect there will be
significant advancement in remote control ore teleprocessing
"robots". This is where there are "brains" in a machine that help
prevent it from driving off a step, but it will ultimately be operated
by a much more advanced processor that God designed and placed in the
skulls of human operators.

Joe Dunfee

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