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Will You Even Notice the Impending Robot Uprising?

Posted by Soulskill on from the i-sure-hope-not dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We tend to take things like household appliances and other automation for granted, but as O'Reilly's Mike Loukides puts it: 'The Future Is All Robots. But Will We Even Notice? We've watched the rising interest in robotics for the past few years. It may have started with the birth of FIRST Robotics competitions, continued with the iRobot and the Roomba, and more recently with Google's driverless cars. But in the last few weeks, there has been a big change. Suddenly, everybody's talking about robots and robotics. ... I have no doubt that Google’s robotics team is working on something amazing and mind-blowing. Should they succeed, and should that success become a product, though, whatever they do will almost certainly fade into the woodwork and become part of normal, everyday reality. And robots will remain forever in the future. We might have found Rosie, the Jetsons’ robotic maid, impressive. But the Jetsons didn’t.'"

6 of 246 comments (clear)

  1. I had a dream. by Stargoat · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I came here with a simple dream. A dream of killing all humans." B.B. Rodriguez

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    Hoist Number One and Number Six.
  2. Suspicious sign: by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    My Roomba ordered me to get off my "lazy human ass" and vacuum the house myself.

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    Table-ized A.I.
  3. No but my dog will by Spy+Handler · · Score: 3, Funny

    dogs are our insurance against a robot uprising.

  4. Who's talking about robots? by hawguy · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Suddenly, everybody's talking about robots and robotics. ..."

    Obviously I'm going to the wrong parties, no one around me is talking about robots.

  5. Re:We'll notice. by hawguy · · Score: 3, Funny

    you do realize the population of the US is only 330 milion currently.

    You're talking a very long way off if so.

    But when we have robots to do all of the work and everyone is unemployed, we'll all have a lot more time to have sex, so the population will skyrocket.

  6. Re:Nope. People will deny that they are robots. by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    I take a train to work...that has no driver. [I tell people] a robot drives me to work.

    I gave my Roomba a shot at driving the car; but it's not very good. Whenever it saw litter on the side, it swerved toward it.

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    Table-ized A.I.