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Robots Are Net's Future, Says Vint Cerf

Posted by timothy on from the would-be-great-for-remote-grocery-picking dept.

Ned Nederlander writes "Vint Cerf talks the future of the Internet with Ed Cone: 'I expect to see much more interesting interactions, including the possibility of haptic interactions — touch. Not just touch screens, but the ability to remotely interact with things. Little robots, for example, that are instantiations of you, and are remotely operated, giving you what is called telepresence. It's a step well beyond the kind of video telepresence we are accustomed to seeing today.'"

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  1. At last! by Haffner · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot readers will finally have satisfying girlfriends.

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    1. Re:At last! by kalirion · · Score: 4, Funny

      Don't forget satisfied girlfriends.

    2. Re:At last! by TheLostSamurai · · Score: 5, Funny

      Personally, I'm looking forward to this finally making it possible for me to be able to work from home. I can have a robot sitting in my office chair browsing Slashdot while pretending to work, being controlled by me from my house browsing Slashdot and pretending to work.

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    3. Re:At last! by PMuse · · Score: 4, Funny

      The day when there are easily-available machines that mostly replace women for purposes of sex will be an interesting day in the history of women's liberation.

      It has certainly been interesting since men were replaced.

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