http://business.time.com/2012/09/27/can-robots-bring-back-manufacturing-jobs-to-the-u-s/?iid=biz-main-lede
I didn't realise that Baxter robot I recently linked is by Rodney Brooks
company -and costs "only" $22,000.
Worth quoting Gates anew:
. In a 2007 article in Scientific American, Microsoft founder Bill Gates
predicted that we were on the verge of a robotics revolution that would
hearken back to the personal computer revolution of his heyday. In the
1970s, Gates argued, computers were widely utilized by business, but they
were tucked in backrooms away from human workers. It wasn’t until the advent
of the personal computer that most office work was transformed into
computer-facilitated tasks that increased a single worker’s productivity
dramatically. Wrote Gates:
“When I talk to people involved in robotics … the level of excitement and
expectation reminds me so much of that time when Paul Allen and I looked at
the convergence of new technologies and dreamed of a day when a computer
would be on every desk and in every home. And as I look at the trends that
are now starting to converge, I can envision a future in which robotic
devices will become a nearly ubiquitous part of our day-to-day lives.”
Like I said, a GROS - a General Robotic Operating System -actually a
GGROS - General Graphic etc - is where the next Gates will be found.
This is interesting too:
http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mcafee_are_droids_taking_our_jobs.html
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