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According to the Nikkei newspaper, Sony’s next project for its little Qrio robot is to up its brainpower to near-supercomputer levels. Given its size, it doesn't come as much of a surprise to find that they're not going to try and shoehorn something into its head. Instead, the plan is to link it via a high-speed wireless connection to a grid of 250 computers that'll do the thinking. The upshot is that rather than giving the Qrio instructions, they’ll be letting it work things out for itself. Details beyond that are scant (we can't find a press release on this from Sony yet, either), but we assume they're thinking of something considerably more advanced than having it wander around and avoid walking into the walls. Given how big an emphasis Sony has placed so far on making the Qrio appear to interact naturally with the meat world, it seems safe to suppose that further improving its social skills could well be a big part of the latest grand experiment.
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Posted: 2004-06-21 22:01:57
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grrrrr....
has anyone read Asimov's "I, robot"?
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Posted: 2004-06-21 22:15:37
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NO!....but im eagerly awaiting the film.
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Posted: 2004-06-21 22:16:45
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Wow, thats like soo cool! Maybe smart robots will become a part of our futurue after all! Although it does seem kind of scifi at the moment.
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Posted: 2004-06-21 22:30:18
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Asimovs rules of robotics are being severly breached
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Posted: 2004-06-22 00:32:17
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cool. but scary!
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Posted: 2004-06-22 00:47:52
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One step closer to the matrix scenario!..Scary as hell!!
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Posted: 2004-06-22 00:50:47
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I was thinking more of the Terminator. I can just imagine it saying "I'll be back".
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Posted: 2004-06-22 22:46:07
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Sony are making the Qrio attend school!
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japantoday
Qrio, a humanoid robot developed by a Sony Intelligence Dynamics Laboratories Inc has been attending a nursery school in California since March to play with children up to 2 years of age in an experiment to help develop a robot that can "live in harmony with humans in the future."
Qrio spends time each day with more than 10 toddlers at the nursery school located in San Diego. Qrio is always accompanied by a researcher, who is in charge of making sure everything goes smoothly. While the children were at first apprehensive about Qrio, they now dance with it and help it get up when it falls. "The children think of Qrio as a feeble younger brother," researcher Fumihide Tanaka said.
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Posted: 2005-05-02 20:24:59
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hahah qrio gets done for smoking, bunking and not doing homework. News at 10.
Qrio.. Whilst your report isn't bad there is far more room for improvement, you're just not applying yourself. Why can't you be like other robotic kids, darryl was never like this.
On the upside at least we'll have cd walkmans that'll run home if you forget a cd later on eh?
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Posted: 2005-05-03 00:29:50
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