Ready for Teddy
Here's a glimpse of the future: Slashdot has an article about teddy bear robots pulling wounded soldiers out of battle. The teddy bear head has been picked because it will supposedly put the hurt man at ease.
Not me. I can't imagine that too many things would be creepier than having a terminator-looking thing with a teddy ruxpin face telling me not too worry.
I wonder if this kind of Spielbergish view of the future isn't right on. It doesn't look like we're going to have truly realistic androids for a long time to come and robotics is getting better. Perhaps the family robots will look like a monster hiding under the bed in Toy Story.
Posted on June 08, 2007
