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Robots!

Posted by chrisd on from the balance-of-power-subtlely-altered dept.

i4u writes "Sony introduces at the Robodex 2003 it's new version of the humanoid Robot SDR-4X. The Sony SDR-4X was introduced last year. The new version SDR-4X II has improved movement functions, safety functions and conversation capabilities. The new speech processor supports continuous speech recognition with about 20,000 words. The Sony SDR-4X II is about 580x190x270mm in size and weighs about 7kg. Sony Japanse Press-Release. See also the new robot Toshiba announced - the ApriAlpha."

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  1. Re:3 laws by 1nhuman · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Nah, don't worry about the laws just yet. Wait until a robot kills it's first victim!

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