Robotic Nation Evidence: 05/01/2007

5.23.2007

IBM Unleashes 4.7 GHz POWER6 Microprocessor

IBM Unleashes 4.7 GHz POWER6 Microprocessor

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5.21.2007

Rise of the machines

Many interesting items about robots can be seen in this article:

Rise of the machines

Examples:

"As part of its bid to put a robot in every household by 2015, South Korea has just drawn up a code of ethics for robots as they become a vital part of daily life. Meanwhile, at a meeting last month in Rome, the European Robotics Research Network called on the European Commission to set up a robot ethics committee to deal with the problems of hostility to and from robots as well as avoiding accidents, tracing their location and monitoring the nature of their intelligence."
"In Japan, where humanoid robots aimed at being more aesthetically pleasing to the public are about to hit assembly lines, robots are gradually replacing humans in the menial jobs that are increasingly hard to fill."
"In response to the vocations crisis in the priesthood, a bearded robo-priest is on call 24 hours a day at the Yokohama Central Cemetary to perform funerals, while at Tokyo’s University of Science, visitors are greeted by a robo-receptionist in a uniform who answers questions and gets bored when there’s nothing to do."
"By next year, robots will be expected to work as cleaners. By 2013, they will be able to make beds, and by 2016, to lift and carry the sick. "
"The development of robotic sex toys is expected to prove one of the most controversial. Vibrating and remarkably lifelike sexbots are already being developed in Japan and there are grave fears that it is only a matter of time before sex dolls resembling children are developed, feeding into the dangerous fantasies of paedophiles."
"Within a decade, one third of American military transport is expected to be driverless while a robot has been designed in South Korea, capable of policing the border with the North, with a shoot-to-kill policy operating at a range of 500 metres."
"In the future, robots will replace humans in jobs deemed too dull, dirty and dangerous, from house-sitting to toxic waste cleaning."
"A decade from now, hospitals in countries with low birth rates and strict immigration policies will begin to replace human nurses with robots capable of administering drugs, lifting patients and turning hospital corners. As Ireland’s elderly population grows, health authorities may turn to machines to look after society’s most dependent."

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Robotic nurses

Robotic nurses set for wards

This is the starting point for the replacement of nurses. Anyone who has been to a hospital and seen the number of (very expensive) people working there knows that robotic replacement of all of them is inevitable.

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