Mitsubishi Robot - Watchdog, Nurse, Annoying Friend

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday February 4, 2003 @08:13PM from the mother's-little-helper dept.

jomaree writes "The SMH Online reports that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have developed a robot (to run on Linux) with voice and face recognition capabilities. The robot would be able to connect to the Internet, contact you by e-mail or a mobile phone and, say, send you a message if it 'hears' a strange noise inside your home. It can also remember the side effects of medication. Reportedly, Mitsubishi claim that the robot 'will become a future house-sitter, caretaker, nurse and friend for the family'. Unfortunately the robot can also be programmed to ask 'You're home late. What have you been up to?' Don't we already have people for that?" The Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun has a story with pictures.

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contact, eh? by trmj · 2003-02-04 20:18 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I can hear it now:

"Tom? You there? It's dark here, and I'm scared. [pause]
Did you hear that? OMIGOSH (I'm lonely) COME HOME QUICK!!!"

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