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Originally Posted by trailmaster
There won't be any robots in our or your children's lifetimes. The technology is too difficult. It depends if your thinking about an android like robot such as "Data" from "Star Trek the next Generation" or just some mechanical rolling thing that you can control with a remote. It took engineers over 40 years just to perfect the prosthetics used for legs on amputees. To create a walking, possible intelligent robot is 100 years or more away!  |
Apologies for the bump, but I just watched "Sophia" the robot conduct an interview on CNN, and this appeared to be the appropriate thread:
According to Wikipedia, Sophia is a social humanoid robot developed by Hong Kong-based company Hanson Robotics. Apparently Sophia isn't pre-programmed with answers, instead she uses machine learning and responds reading people's expressions.
Sophia doesn't yet have true consciousness, but Hanson Robotics CEO David Hanson told the BBC earlier this year that this could happen within a few years.
Interesting interview, but I did have a chuckle when the BBC report stated that Sophia was given citizenship by Saudi Arabia in October 2017. A few have commented that this machine had more rights than the women in that country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_(robot)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/articl...ally-important