Re: Humanoid Robots on the Mass Market

From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Mon May 22 2000 - 23:35:34 MDT


Franklin Wayne Poley writes:
 
> I'll probably buy one of those Husqvarana solar-robotic lawn mowers this
> summer. If a machine can use perimeter guide wires to mow a lawn (it goes
> around trees etc.) why not vacuum a room unless it is cluttered?

At a few kilobuck price tag, I'd rather go with real "baah! baah!"
sheep. Much more robust. Multifunction: fully adaptive lawn clipping,
fertilizing, dynamical self-replicating lawn ornaments.



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