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Robo-Chefs and Fashion-Bots On Show In Tokyo
avishere writes "The International Robot Exhibition kicked off this week in Tokyo, unveiling the latest whirring and buzzing inventions from 192 companies and 64 organizations from at home and abroad — and bringing humanity another step closer to irrelevance. Among the humanoid cavalcade was a prototype robo-chef, showing off its cooking and cutting skills, along with robots to play with your children, model clothes, and search for disaster victims. There was also one made almost exclusively of cardboard. The exhibition — which opened with a human-like robot called Nextage cutting the ribbon — runs until Saturday."
... he's rolling in his grave.
...does not bork.
...some way out of here.
These guys are there. This thing is really ice-cool. http://www.roboni-i.com/
Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis
This one gives me the horrors. Its something about they way she is flicking her left finger. I wonder what it is for?
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"Iron Cook, eh? I can't lose. I'm 30% iron!"
Not the best choice of sentence structure there.
Igor Presnyakov stole my hat
The robo-chef doesn't wear a chef hat.
do they choose these numbers for a reason?
I for one wish to welcome our ... oh forget it.
"The Iron Chef made five dishes, but they're all pancakes."
finnergenergenerg?
Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
but do they feature Lotus Notes and a machine gun?
Does the robot randomly shout "Bork bork bork!" while it cooks?
...or allow any immigration (even of overseas ethnic Japanese) this about the only way that they can survive the population loss. Funny and sad at the same time.
"If you want to know what happens to you when you die, go look at some dead stuff."
The first thing that came to mind was this.
I expect that in practice the robots at the show were almost as sophisticated.
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What, they've got Largo's Ph34rBot on display?
won't this accelerate the population loss?
...or allow any immigration (even of overseas ethnic Japanese) this about the only way that they can survive the population loss. Funny and sad at the same time.
They could add to their population the old-fashioned way..
Well yes they could, but the point is that they haven't.
"If you want to know what happens to you when you die, go look at some dead stuff."
It's perfectly sensible. There are 130m Japanese crowded onto an island the size of California, highly-dependent on raw materials and food from outside which must be protected by an outside force (the US) they resent but can do nothing about.
The reduction of the population will increase the living standard of the remaining Japanese, and the investment into robotics and automation will make the transition to a smaller population easier while keeping the country on the cutting edge of technology.
Maybe not. They've got a huge population bulge of elderly that are going to need lots of resources and while automation can do some of the production they don't pay any taxes. And so there's the rub.
"If you want to know what happens to you when you die, go look at some dead stuff."