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Personal Robots From Valley Startup

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'll-believe-it-when-it's-cooking-me-dinner dept.

Tjeerd writes ""A Silicon Valley start-up is developing a hardware and software development platform for personal-assistant robots, autonomous boats and unmanned cars. The privately funded company, quietly started almost a year ago by eGroups founder and veteran Google architect Scott Hassan, plans to make its robotics software open source. That way, it hopes to draw a community of developers to build applications in these respective fields.""

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  1. Great start by Muad'Dave · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Cool. Great start. Call me when you have 'bots that can:

    • Load the dishwasher
    • Empty the cat litter
    • Feed the cats
    • Let the dogs in/out
    • Feed the dogs
    • Do laundry
    • Clean gutters
    • etc

    The vacuuming 'bots are cool, but there's so much more they'll need to do before they're really integrated, Jetson's-style.

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    1. Re:Great start by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 4, Funny

      * Load the dishwasher -> Wife
              * Empty the cat litter -> Wife
              * Feed the cats -> Wife
              * Let the dogs in/out -> Wife
              * Feed the dogs -> Wife
              * Do laundry -> Wife
              * Clean gutters -> Wife
              * etc

      The Wife unit also does the hoovering.

      *Incidentally darling if you are reading this I don't mean it and I will assume the party escort submission position.

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    2. Re:Great start by dcsmith · · Score: 3, Funny
      COST?

      Its more an issue of how LONG you'll be paying than how much.
      And the payment plan is, well, forever...

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  2. Hey Baby... by jimboindeutchland · · Score: 3, Funny

    wanna kill all humans?
    -Bender

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  3. A lot less interesting without dyslexia. by DdJ · · Score: 4, Funny

    At first, I thought the title was "Personal Robots Form Valley Startup".

    Now that would have been an interesting story...