As I discussed in an earlier post household robots will herald a revolution in the way we live. Robotic household servants will become commonplace and allow people to live without regard for simple daily tasks.
Above is a great example of a robot which has been programmed to learn form humans how to accomplish a variety of tasks. With no training the people participating in the study were able to teach the robot how to fold a towel or open a bottle of pills. The mechanical usefulness of robots such as this far exceeds our ability to program software to make them autonomously capable of the broad range of things we would like it to do. Learning software will give us the ability to on the fly teach a robot a new task, and then add it to it's catalogue.
Robot, please have my laundry cleaned and folded when I wake up.
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