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Study Says 4.1M Domestic Robots In Use By 2007

Posted by samzenpus on from the let-the-machine-do-it dept.

jangobongo writes "The U.N.'s annual World Robotics Survey for 2004 predicts that there will be a seven-fold surge in household robots by the end of 2007. Robots that mow your lawn, vacuum, wash windows, clean swimming pools, as well as entertainment robots such as Aibo are all vying to take a place in our homes and ease our workload. The study says that Japan is the leader in consumer robotics, with Europe and North America quickly catching up."

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  1. Let me be the first to say... by metlin · · Score: 5, Funny



    I, for one, welcome our new lawn mowing window washing swim suit wearing robotic over...err...dogs?

    1. Re:Let me be the first to say... by stecoop · · Score: 4, Funny

      Nothing times a billion is still nothing

      This is true for regular algebra but in calculus there are formulas where even though the regular math proves 0*n = 0; studying points as they approach really close to the numbers will show that sometimes will not be zero. Like sin(x)/x as x -> 0 should be Undefined right? Well as you study the limits on both sides of 0 to infinite "closeness" you'll see that the formula actually equates to 1. Therefore if you had sin(x)/x as x -> 0 * billion it would equal a billion. Weird huh?

  2. Time to get by beacher · · Score: 5, Funny

    ROBOT INSURANCE!!!!! Because robots have steel claws and they eat old peoples medicine for food!

  3. what will the kiddies do then? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Robots that mow your lawn, vacuum, wash windows, clean swimming pools

    I thought this was why people had kids.

    1. Re:what will the kiddies do then? by catherder_finleyd · · Score: 4, Funny

      The kids will still have jobs programming the robots:

      "Hey Son, How do you program this thing? It's still flashing 12:00!"