The latest high-tech robot innovation that will make our autumn years sunnier? Err, it's not cute. It's sinister ("Pedobear" as it is becoming known). Well it would be sinister if it were anything more than a sodding hydraulic lift with a skirt on. What was wrong with the Filipino nurses doing the rounds anyway?
Dear reader, if Our Man should be incapacitated and require one of these things to transport him from bed to bog, please put him out of his misery with the nearest pillow. After you mercy kill the orchestra first, mind. Oh, and if you see this thing coming at you with a straw and a blue drink - KICK IT DOWN THE NEAREST FLIGHT OF STAIRS BEFORE IT UNDERCOOKS YOUR TOAST.
Vids lifted from Pink Tentacle here.
Saturday, 19 September 2009
Japanese robot nurses? Pull the plug. Now.
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Hey, by the time you're old enough to need a robot assistant you're going to be happy to get one. And as you grow roujin-boke enough you'll be happy to follow the robots' suggestion and sign off your estate to - just to pick a sample completely at random - the Swedish guy who wrote the empathy and social interaction routines in the first place.
BTW, the finger work in the second video is pretty good, if it is as natural-setting as it appears to be. While nurses will be as much in demand as ever, expect to see orderlies be replaced in ten to fifteen years or less. A nurse is a qualified professional, and having them handle bedpans is rather beneath their competence level.
Sorry Janne, Our Man's still with the luddites on this one. Our Man's head may be digital, but his heart is analogue.
the luddites?a fine example of the third album problem
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