[ExI] Smallest human-equivalent device

[spike]

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Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 1:09 PM
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Subject: Re: [ExI] Smallest human-equivalent device

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 8:15 PM, spike wrote:
> >...  I can imagine a next-generation idea: driving robots 
> capable of taking a current Detroit and driving it unmodified, as is...
the humanoid driving robot wouldn't know or care.
>


>...A fully mobile delivery robot is surely unnecessary?  Nice, but not
required for deliveries.
...
>...But fully mobile robots will be very useful for other situations. They
will just be very expensive to develop...BillK
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Ja.  The core idea is that if we can develop sufficiently human-like robots,
they can use our tools, run our machines, drive our cars, wear our clothes,
generally use the existing infrastructure rather than requiring a huge
expensive retrofit with competing standards.  That expensive development
might be our least expensive path forward.  This approach appeals to me from
a controls engineering perspective: it's a hard enough problem to be
interesting.

spike