Sunday, April 11, 2010

THE RUST ROBOT OF RECENT HISTORY

Back when 'Tomorrow's World' on BBC TV was really exciting, robots were going to save us. Ironically, anything robotic on Dr Who looked so dysfunctional and tacky, real robots were going to save us. However, though robotic arms spray car chassis, it still takes hours for a 2010 robot to fold a towel. That is, it has taken over 30 years for a robot to be made that can 'compute' such a simple task - very, very slowly.
Bring back tomorrow's world.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Rupert, your selective luddity broadcast via the WWW from your modern PC merits further investigation methinks….
Bill