Several fascinating quotes in this article, including:
“By 2010, the ministry [of Economy, Trade, and Industry in Japan] hopes, full-fledged, humanoid robots will be common sights in middle-class homes.”
And:
Help in negotiating the complex environment of a modern home, enthusiasts argue, will come from a network of tiny radio frequency identification chips. At the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, scientists are training robots to sort and wash dishes by combining visual data with RFID input. If a robot sees something round and platelike, it scans the object. The plate’s RFID chip reports, in essence, I’m a plate! I get washed and put in the corner cupboard, second shelf!
Robots using RFID
Robotic Nation Evidence Several fascinating quotes in this article, including: “By 2010, the ministry [of Economy, Trade, and Industry in Japan] hopes, full-fledged, humanoid robots will be common sights in…
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