The magazine Business Week has an article about office robots becoming common place in the nearby future. Among other things these robots are going to deliver mail, yes mail, you read it correctly and pour coffee for their "co-workers". To be more precise, they mean this bad boy
| Kawada HRP-4 |
quite cool, right ? Too bad the price tag is about US$ 350,000. I do not know the salary of an office page in Japan, but if it is about US$ 30,000/month then I am packing to Japan. Now !
Another company in the USA, SmartRobots, is selling a much cheaper toy, sorry office worker. The SR4 it does not come cheap either as it sells for a little less than US$ 19,000. It is not nearly as cool, as the japanese bipede toy, but beggars can't be choosers. And it gets points for the pure geek aspect of the thing.
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| SmartRobots SR4 |
I know that journalists are not famous for their brain power, but doesn't the mention of a mail delivering robot even manages to raise some eyebrows ? Come on, mail !? And on top of that, the other task is puring coffee !? Really ? Why don't you just lock the employees in their cubicles while you are at it ? Sometimes I feel that I am the only intelligent person left on planet Earth...
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