We have a Robotics team at school, which I think is totally awesome and it's helping kids get introduced to a field early so they will be more successful. Two of my freshmen were talking about the club, one was trying to convince the other to join the club. He was trying to explain what their robots do, yada yada yada. I kept hoping that he would tell his friend that their club was building a human-like robot that could perform daily tasks, just like Kevin, Screech's robot friend. But to no avail, he explained that their robot had to move things from place to place and did not resemble a human in any way. To be honest, I was bummed. When are we going to start to prepare students for the real future, when we all have robot servants and robot friends?
Lesson learned: I should invest in one of those iRobot Roomba vacuums to prepare.
Have you seen that towel-folding robot?
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I'm saving all my dollars for it.