On 08/12/2007, Benjamin Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Millions of investment bucks doesn't go that far in robotics, unfortunately. > > I hope to see progress too, but I believe you're way optimistic about > the current > state of robotics research.
As an old lag I am constantly disappointed by the seemingly endless parade of expensive and showy but ultimately useless and unintelligent robots built by major companies. These are more like marketing tools to get the company name into the tech headlines for a while rather than serious attempts to produce intelligent physically embodied machines. I often feel that the large amounts of money put into these projects is effectively wasted since it contributes little to the state of the art. In robotics seeing is not believing and it's very easy to put on a brief two minute show which may appear superficially impressive, but where there is little going on beneath the surface. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=73979401-dd8cbc
