The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns

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Japan's most recent robot, Ubiko, is meant to replace humans for various 'grunt' tasks such as welcoming clients and promoting products on site, amongst others.

An obvious attempt to reduce expenditures.

George the robot is playing hide-and-seek with scientist Alan Schultz.

Um...hiding what? And where?

[Sam's remark] Plus, I'm not really comfortable with this commentary on the bot:

For a robot to actually find a place to hide, and then hunt for its human playmate is a new level of human interaction.

And finally, Stanford scientists plan to make a robot capable of performing everyday tasks, such as unloading the dishwasher.

Woo-hoo!

Hey, let me know when a robot can drive a car, make supper, go to work for me when I'm sick or prepare my tax returns...

Submitted by 123beta.