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   From: trminlxGARBAGE@bitstreamnet.com   
      
   In article ,   
    glitterati  wrote:   
      
   > Erm...   
   >   
   > ghost wrote:   
   >  > General response ...   
   >  >   
   >  > for the sex angle try the movie Cherry 2000. Cheesy as it is the idea   
   >  > for robo-prostitute couldn't be better done I don't think. Complete with   
   >  > reloadable personality discs!   
   >   
   > Cherry...EW!  I will, thanks.   
   >   
   >    
   >  > As for what they might look like, I'd say the robot would be very close   
   >  > to human simply because we've contructed a world that the human shape is   
   >  > best apt to deal with and when making automation systems for that world   
   >  > following our form would require the least amount of reengineering on   
   >  > our part to have the robot function in the world already in place.   
   >   
   > That may be true, but don't forget that technology is getting smaller   
   > and smaller. There's a great focus on portability and convenience. Maybe   
   > the robots that can talk back will be humaniod, but I think a lot of the   
   > more single-function robots will be small, compact, even demure. Kind of   
   > like that one vaccum cleaner.   
      
   This is possible, but just looking at say, web browsers. Used to be you   
   had your email program, and your newsreader (most of us still have them   
   as seperate progs) and then you had the web browser. One item,   
   streamlined and functional. Works.   
      
   But people don't like so many things, especially since now they have to   
   store them everywhere if physical. People one to go out get one thing   
   and have it do many things. A robot that can vacuum, do the dishes, wash   
   the walls, get the mail and straiten the picture in the hallway you   
   knock sideways every time you run out the door. One robot with possibly   
   different attachments, or possibly the feet suck of dirt as it moves   
   around the room or something, and gain we're back to a humanoid form.   
      
   I'm not saying that the little robot dance ala Fifth Element with a   
   sweeper, washer, vaccumer, buffer robot quartet wouldn't be cool, or   
   have it's place but I do think it would eventually gravitate back to the   
   all-in-one model idea that everything we seem to make encompasses. And   
   the humanoid form would lend itself nicely to that.   
      
      
   ghost   
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