RE: Robovie-I enters the classroom for experiment in social interaction

billabott — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:53:51 GMT

Ahem, let's put on our lawyer hats for a minute or two. What business man or international corporation is going to take on the liabilites of such devices malfunctioning or failing to sound the alert 100% of the time. It would cost the company an astounding amount of money to defend such claims over the life of the products.

Oh, but surely the Government will vouchsafe any such investments for the "good of the citizenry." And why would they do that? Only to have a back door coding modification option wirelessly thru the internet to change the the robot from pro-life to anti-life to hasten the Government death committee's recommendations.

To put any hope and faith in such a device is beyond the pale of reason.

Go ahead, lemmings, nothing that I say will change your course.

RE: Robovie-I enters the classroom for experiment in social interaction

DAB — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:16:27 GMT

A very interesting idea.

Have passive robots just observe humans to learn their unique patterns.

I could see this information used to diagnose a lot of social interaction issues, identify the students or people who are clearly lost or just bored with the information at a class room.

I could also see these types of robots as a sort of guardian angel for older folks. Once fully trained, the observer robot could identify times when the person under observation was experiencing unusual activity or problems and alert a human care taker to check up on the person.

The same could be done for people in hospital rooms or rest homes where the cost for human monitors would be too costly.

I like it.

DAB