Thursday, 31 January 2008

What says "Technology!" more than...

...a robot playing the violin?

This video is a few weeks old, but Toyota has developed a humanoid robot that has the capacity to play violin. Though this use is clearly just for entertainment, it has all sorts of implications for what we may entrust to electronics in the future.

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2 comments:

Fan said...

When the technological products compete with human beings, how do we balance the relationship?

alysongolditch said...

yea that is a pretty scary thought that robots are competitors with human beings!!! i guess the only way to balance the relationship is to limit what robots are allowed to do. playing an instrument isn't that big of a deal, but that next thing we know robots will be the new "mom" (cooking and cleaning) and the whole idea of a family can be destroyed.