From: Alienthe@hotmail.com
Neowulf (Aaron VonDerheide) wrote:
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>>>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.
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> Hmm, interesting!
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>>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.
The all-in-one concept is fairly limited outside the computing
and communications world and even there you will find exceptions.
Unix philosophy is do one thing and do it well, while Microsoft
aims for the all purpose suites.
In the home, particularly in the kitchen, things are specialised
and the machine that washes clothes as well as dishes does not
appear to be that common. Even self cleaning machines are uncommon.
> I don't really like all-in-one. I like options, but I prefer to use an app
> for each job. That way, they play to their strengths.
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> Still...
If you consider a humanoid frame you can still have plug-ins and
if the robot can share its tools with humans it would be handy.
>>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.
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> Hmm, a humanoid bot in charge of the cleaning and, probably, a sex-bot.
> Lemme think, what does that sound like?
Messy?
>>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.
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> FYI,
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> I plan on giving every human character in the story an AI--sort-of like how
> everybody has a (one) primary, faithful servant in old legends. The
> AI...well, it's a slave, really...would control other li'l bots that do
> chores and what-not. Each house probably has a small humanoid android
> (stronger, faster, but dumber than a human) per each major area of the home
> (like many modern households have a TV in each bedroom), and these
> androids, as well as all other household bots, are controlled by the
> personal assistant AI.
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> There are also some security cameras with enough brains to recognize
> suspicious people.
I would expect robots to be heavily networked and loaded with
sensors. Security would also be an issue lest robots would be
stolen or used for break-ins.
> I think Gliterati's mini-bots might be an interesting add-on. Little
> bug-like bots that do delicate, tedious tasks. Biomechanical/nanotech
> clothes. Nanotech tattoos. Hmm, this is helping...
Nanotech changes everything, everything would be so self cleaning
and maintaining that robots would hardly be needed. Robots using
traditional mechanics are here today and advanced models is just
a question of time rather than major breakthrough.
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