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It's a long video (with an agenda), but despite the somewhat conspiratorial tone, there's some really interesting stuff in there. For example, Thomas Peterffy
by ddeck 13y ago
It's a long video (with an agenda), but despite the somewhat conspiratorial tone, there's some really interesting stuff in there.
For example, Thomas Peterffy (founder of Interactive Brokers) talking about how they built a robot typist during the 80's to get around NASDAQ rules that required all orders to be entered via the keyboard (14:25).
From another interview [1]:
"Q: What did that thing sound like when it was running?"
"A: Like a machine gun. Brrrrr. Because it was typing so fast."
[1] http://m.npr.org/story/159992076?url=/blogs/money/2012/08/27/159992076/a-father-of-high-speed-trading-thinks-we-should-slow-down http://m.npr.org/story/159992076?url=/blogs/money/2012/08/27...
- agravier 13y agoThat is sort of awesome. Developments in robotics not to overcome physics, but to overcome arbitrary man-made rules (outside of a robotics competition). I'd like to see more of that as long as it's not military or violent.
- grandalf 13y agoArguably assembly plant robots exist to overcome arbitrary man-made rules (labor laws)... edit: not sure why this was downvoted.
- tbrownaw 13y agoI thought they existed to overcome the limits of what humans are capable of. People are only able to move so fast, are only able to lift so much, become less mentally present after so long, etc.
- grandalf 13y agoThat's not generally true. In some cases robots offer improved precision, but in many cases a robotics-oriented factory takes a tremendous amount of capital to design/create and there would rarely be a business case to build it if human labor weren't so costly (due to labor laws).
- f7t7ft7 13y agoI imagine the machine would be like the robots in the band Compressorhead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc8mQyA2dw0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc8mQyA2dw0