You're absolutely right: Sony is in it for the longterm.
This is exactly what Masahiro Fujita (Sony Digital Creatures Lab) confirmed at the Siggraph 2003 - Robotics: The Android Dreams Special Session. They want to get a feel for the industry first by making entertainement robots. This is a safe learning ground as these robots are not safety critical so there is room for error/approximations. If AIBO doesn't understand your voice command or bumps into a wall, it's no big deal. When these robots become reliable and more intelligent, Sony plans to move into more safety critical and potentially huge markets: replacing labor-intensive jobs, helping handicaps etc...
The Japanese goverment just awarded $400M to research in the field of robotics. They already know this is the next big -if not biggest- thing. The US and EU should invest a lot more in robotics.
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Why not simply use bash under Cygwin to get all the functionality of a decent shell?
Who need's another shell?
Or maybe MS could natively support unix bash under Windows.
It's either too good to be true or it'll have limited applicability.
"It's conceivable this technology could become mainstream inside chips in 10 years time," Tully said."
10 years!?! By that time, silicon CPUs will be faster than these optical chips.
"The 'Windows' is now open"
sorry had to...
This is only the beginning guys. Adware first and spyware next.
At least, we'll get Open Source spyware projects on SourceForge.
Linux users: welcome to the Windows world.
Looks like the European division of the MIT Media Lab is following nicely in the footsteps of its ancestor.
Anybody got a mirror or a BitTorrent link for the Red Team video (http://www.redteamracing.org/include/media/movies /red_team.mpeg)?
You're absolutely right: Sony is in it for the longterm.
This is exactly what Masahiro Fujita (Sony Digital Creatures Lab) confirmed at the Siggraph 2003 - Robotics: The Android Dreams Special Session. They want to get a feel for the industry first by making entertainement robots. This is a safe learning ground as these robots are not safety critical so there is room for error/approximations. If AIBO doesn't understand your voice command or bumps into a wall, it's no big deal. When these robots become reliable and more intelligent, Sony plans to move into more safety critical and potentially huge markets: replacing labor-intensive jobs, helping handicaps etc...
The Japanese goverment just awarded $400M to research in the field of robotics. They already know this is the next big -if not biggest- thing. The US and EU should invest a lot more in robotics.
Anybody got the movie file for this one?