The Nightmare in Silicon Valley: 8 horror technologies that should scare you to death
Every night is fright night with what can happen once these scary technologies take hold in ways that you may not have imagined.
There are some old favorites and some new hits. Which will be the first non-vacuum consumer robot to break out big?
It's drawn pretty much universal comparisons to Rosie, the Jetsons' beloved robot servant. It's also garnering rave reviews as a surprise standout in a relatively familiar field of home robots. Aeolus is a working prototype of a mobile robot with a dexterous arm, which can clutch a vacuum and recognize and pick up objects (clean your room Elroy!). That makes it one of the first home bots we've seen with dexterity. It responds to all the usual commands we associate with smaller tabletop personal assistants, and it's got Amazon's Alexa onboard. The prototype from newbie Aeolus Robotics isn't ready for market, but I'll be following this one closely.
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