Wed Sept 6, 2017
Robotics is advancing faster than expected.
The first Star Wars Movie in the late 1970s introduced the concept of two Droids, C3PO and R2D2. left and right
If R2D2 could just plug into t network, he was a wonder.
Now Knightscope
has made the droid concept a reality. The robot even looks like R2D2!
The US Military has made great use of robots to detect explosive mines, explore hazardous areas, and of course in the drone program.
Knightscope sees this as an ideal law enforcement monitoring device. The human police, like the USAF drone operator, would work at a safe distance from the area.
Or such robots could replace humans for warehouse inventory, see post about the Big Four using drones and robots just yesterday.
Counting inventory is boring stuff and leads to human error.
I don't know what one of these costs but then it never goes on vacation or gets sick. Reminds me of my first Northstar computer, It was horribly expensive by today's standards but worked out to about $250 per month based on the initial purchase. and we ran miles of fan fold paper through it.
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