February 21st, 2007 by The Head Rotor
Our own Mr. Robotics hosted a seminar at the recent AAAS meeting in San Francisco. Mr. R, savvy in the ways of the MSM, offers this juicy tidbit among other good stuff:
Calkins said life-like robots could be used in elder care, performing routine medical functions like dispensing pills in hospitals, and serving as home care providers. He hinted that robot companionship could one day go, as teens once said, all the way, for “geek bachelors who can’t get a girlfriend.”
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February 22nd, 2007 at 6:39 am
So… non-geek bachelors are still screwed? Or rather, not screwed? Bias! Discrimination! Etc.!
I like how this sort of flowed from “routine medical functions.”