Robotics Inching to Make Robots More Human-like
Posted by rivalblogger on 25th December 2009
By: Andrew Newell
It’s a common misconception that robots should be like humans. Actually, if they did, it means compromising their potential as a computing machine capable of processing billions of instructions per second while asking fringe benefits and leave benefits from their employers.
We’ve seen movies portray robots of the future with terms like “humanoids” or “Cyborgs” that stand for cybernetic organisms. There’s rarely much truth in them. Robots today are mostly stationary machines with tentacular armatures that perform multiple and often simultaneous tasks that churn out complete cars, trucks, appliances and motherboards and other complex electronic circuits.
But the objective remains to impart human-like quality in robots at least in the areas of stable mobility and cognitive interactivity for robotic science to consider
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