http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/ Engadget Comments for $170,000 Japanese-style Roomba takes home the gold http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/Jan 3rd 2007 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/Jan 3rd 2007 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/Jan 3rd 2007 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/
No?

Fine.


Chris]]>Jan 3rd 2007 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/Why not design robots to replace lawyers, doctors and politicians?]]>Jan 3rd 2007 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/Jan 8th 2007 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/Jan 3rd 2007 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/Jan 3rd 2007 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/Why not design robots to replace lawyers, doctors and politicians?]]>Jan 3rd 2007 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/
But then I thought Judge Dread was a riot.]]>Jan 3rd 2007 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/Jan 3rd 2007 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/
(that last line sounds like the premise of cheesy robot rebelion movie)]]>Jan 3rd 2007 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/Mar 19th 2007 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/Jan 3rd 2007 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/Jan 3rd 2007 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/Why not design robots to replace lawyers, doctors and politicians?"

There is a replacement for lawyers and politicians... it's called a cardboard box. Takes up the same space and accomplishes about the same thing!]]>Jan 3rd 2007 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/
The 'Exodus effect' will kick in for the initial period
Exodus Effect: (improvement programs worsening conditions at first before vastly improving them 'see- Israelites bitching about the desert being worse than slavery in Egypt as the first example, later 70's UK economic recovery another, Post commie fall Russia being another, automated answering service until we get true artificial agents to deal more specifically with our call needs being yet another example of how the initial stages of improvement (machines over paid human operators) seem to worsen things until they mature a little).

After the Exodus effect period it will be nice to see machines doing simplistic tasks rather than elderly people. I always feel sad and that it's an undignified lifestyle for someone in their sunset years to be on their knees scraping gum off of floors etc.
The machine will come down in price and spread quite quickly i think.]]>Jan 4th 2007 6:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/Jan 4th 2007 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/Jan 3rd 2007 10:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/Jan 4th 2007 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/Jan 7th 2007 7:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/170-000-japanese-style-roomba-takes-home-the-gold/Believe me, I would love to have an auto vac that really works well, but so far, roomas lack ability to pick up dirt and hair. I can only assume the super vac is the same.]]>Jan 14th 2007 2:31PM