One of the neater details of the new movie (and coming TV series)
Caprica, which takes place 58 years before the just-concluded Battlestar Galactica series and explains the creation of the Cylons, was the robotic butler
Serge, which looks a bit like a mobile, talking golf bag:

A new robot by
Anybots is not exactly the same thing, but about half of it:

This is a teleconference on wheels -- the robot can follow you around, etc., but the voice is that of the person/people on the other end of your teleconference.
Here's a
video of the concept. They cost about $30K apiece. I could see this catching on, if the price were a lot lower, and people have about 15 years to grow comfortable with the idea.
1 comment:
Very cool. I love robots. I had a robot when I was very young that did simple things like pick stuff up, talk, smile, and cruise around. I thought it was the coolest.
Now I'm grown up still playing with robots/machines in my engine and transmission shop.
I guess I'll never grow up.
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