On Jan 11, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Philip Goetz wrote:
On 06/01/07, Gary Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is the way it's going to go in my opinion. In a house or
office the
robots would really be dumb actuators - puppets - being controlled
from a
central AI which integrates multiple systems together. That way
you can
keep the cost and maintenance requirements of the robot to a bare
minimum.
Such a system also future-proofs the robot in a rapidly changing
software
world, and allows intelligence to be provided as an internet based
service.
If there's a market for this, then why can't I even buy a thermostat
with a timer on it to turn the temperature down at night and up in the
morning? The most basic home automation, which could have been built
cheaply 30 years ago, is still, if available at all, so rare that I've
never seen it.
http://www.google.com/search?q=programmable+thermostat
They're extremely common; there's an entire aisle of such things at my
local Home Depot.
--
Randall Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"If you are trying to produce a commercial product in
a timely and cost efficient way, it is not good to have
somebody's PhD research on your critical path." -- Chip Morningstar
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