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What a charming article. It brought a smile to my face at the end of a long day. My team is too decentralized, spread all over the world, for a robot to make
by blisterpeanuts 11y ago
What a charming article. It brought a smile to my face at the end of a long day.
My team is too decentralized, spread all over the world, for a robot to make sense, but I almost wish this weren't the case because it would be so fun. So many opportunities for jokes, pranks, and as Emily put it, joy.
Eventually these devices will need to have mifi or 4G, to get around the wifi dead zone issue though if there's no 4G either, you're in trouble. I suppose the robot could be instructed to automatically turn around and retrace its steps until it has signal again.
Also, of course, they'll need arms. It would be so useful to point at things on the white board, tap an elevator button, knock on a door, etc. Operating a heavy door might be a bridge too far, for now.
But eventually, we may have a "Surrogate (The Movie)" situation where human lookalikes are wandering around everywhere, and we'll be jacked in with 3-D goggles, noise canceling headphones, and smart gloves that provide resistance.
This may actually be the Next Big Thing. Where can we invest?
- CM30 11y agoSo in other words, like that Avatar movie James Cameron directed, except with robots replacing the Na'vi. Or if you're a Doctor Who fan, like the episodes with the Gangers. Either way, it'd definitely make remote working a lot more interesting. And a lot of other things too, with the military potential being near endless...
- eric_h 11y agoI feel like the military potential has already been realized in the form of armed drones.
- blisterpeanuts 11y agoYes but the Avatars cost like $1B each and were neurally customized to exactly one person. I was thinking more of Surrogates[1] where you could remote into a robot pretty easily. 1. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986263/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986263/
- anon4 11y agoWhat if you rent a room with a whiteboard somewhere and put in telepresence robots for everyone? You'll save on food and... Actually, a virtual reality persistent world would be more economical. Just buy Second Life licenses.
- hellbanner 11y agohttps://convrge.co https://convrge.co is building a persistent VR world. (Supposedly alpha is working though I haven't tried)