Re: A Race of humanoid drones for labor.

Sarah Marr (sarah.marr@dial.pipex.com)
Sat, 31 Aug 1996 08:28:13 +0100


At 01:16 30/08/96 -0700, Chris Hind wrote:

>Lets face it, robots will never be doing tasks such as house-cleaning,
>building construction, interior or exterior decorating, etc. because they're
>too clunky and not as flexible as flesh and bone the only potential
>replacement I can think of is nanites or robots consisting of nanites. They
>can't even climb stairs with much ease which is why they invented the
>webblimp to fly over the terrain and skip the obstacle altogether.

Sorry, Chris, but how on Earth can you post to a mailing list such as this,
which so overtly recognizes the potential of technology, and come out with
such an incredibly short-sighted view of robotics? "Robots are too clunky
but I'm with you on immortality, uploading, nanotechnology,
bioengineering..." Hello?

Give it a few years and that statement will come back to haunt you.

Sarah

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