Office Robots of the Near Future, Gearing Up

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 16, 2011 @09:02AM from the when-will-rcbs-make-a-robot? dept.

Reader jsrodrigues points out Businessweek's article on the predicted coming wave of office robots. These include offerings from Willow Garage, Anybots, and Smart Robots, all designed to automate certain bits of office-building meatspace gruntwork, like ferrying mail and making coffee, but more intelligently and smoothly than previous generations of such tools. Smart Robots has posted a scenario describing the benefits of office life with robots; a test run of robots from that company is set for early 2012 at "a major office building in Manhattan."

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Robots in the office - not by Animats · 2011-01-16 09:10 · Score: 4, Insightful

Why have robots to move paper around an office? Get rid of the paper.
Re:Changes the concept of office sex by maxwell+demon · 2011-01-16 09:40 · Score: 3, Insightful

Just call them consultants.

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