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2011: Baby Steps to "The Jetsons"

in News on February 24, 2011 at 1:55 pm PT

When people find out that I work in the personal robotics industry, they invariably ask me how quickly their Rosie the Robot will arrive. Everyone wants his/her own personal assistant. We’ve already seen robots tackling laundry, sorting socks, and even fetching a beer; so it’s fair to say that a good deal of progress has been made toward a future where personal robots are routinely assisting humans.

Microsoft's Vision of the Future–and the Inevitable Spoof

in News on August 14, 2009 at 12:09 am PT

One of my favorite “world-of-the-future” videos recently has been one done by Microsoft Office Labs, because it does not seem ridiculously fanciful or impossible to imagine actually happening sooner than much later. But, of course, the folks at IGN.com’s Sarcastic Gamer managed to find the perfect way to poke fun at the video in a spoof that hit the target deftly.
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