Word: robotically
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...Plenty of Japanese see a domestic market emerging. According to the Japan Robot Association (an organization currently run by humans), the country's personal-robot market could grow to $8 billion by 2010 from almost nothing today. That projection is based partly on wishful thinking, partly on demographic trends. Japan's rapidly aging population and shrinking workforce is expected to create a growing need for personal assistants and low-level health care workers that machines might fill...
...ASIMO was designed with that in mind, says Hirose. The robot is light (52 kilos), lest it stumble and pin a user to the floor, triggering a product-liability lawsuit. Yet it's tall enough to reach light switches and doorknobs or to clear the table. Its mini-cam "eyes" are level with those of a sitting adult for easy communication, and its humanlike form is meant to break down our inhibitions toward sharing a home with a talking toaster...
CIRCUIT CIRCUS Everyone has a theory on what makes a good robot. Here's our assessment...
Breakdown: We're not entirely sure he's a robot, but he certainly doesn't seem human
...Indeed, there's a gaping cost-benefit gulf to be bridged before Honda's little walking man can evolve into the next Walkman. Consumers have been conditioned to expect robots to behave like C-3PO of Star Wars. But creating artificially intelligent machines that can sense and interact with the environment in a convincing way is a monumentally complex computing task. The Japanese government's Humanoid Robotics Project set out five years ago to deliver a robot versatile enough to perform hard labor in hazardous conditions. Some $40 million has been spent but the project's HRP-1 robot still...