My Roomba at work in our kitchen early one morning.
As I tap out these words in my home office, my own robot is vacuuming the lounge floor upstairs. It's an iRobot Roomba vacuum cleaner, which does a far better job than our regular cleaner (me, actually).
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The suit worn by Iron Man actor Robert Downey.
Last night I watched some of the Iron Man movie for the first time. And it struck me that while Iron Man had control over many things, some others he didn't - as he tried to work out how to use his suit and fight the bad guys.
Just like the lottery. Some parts you can control - and I'll tell you exactly which bits now - and some you can't.
It's true - my wife was rescued by a sophisticated robot after being trapped in a cupboard.
Let me tell you how it happened...
This morning on YouTube I watched a homegrown robot built like a meccano set kick a ball. Only took a couple of minutes to line it up :)
What is it about robot-builders that makes them construct replicas of ourselves, when only a tiny percent of the world's population doesn't even kick a tin can? I can't remember the last time I kicked a ball, yet kicking and running are the high skill factors they try and build in to these mechanical marvels.
Sure, I know it is really an advanced from of locomotion they are trying to show off.
But what about delivering me a freshly cooked breakfast in bed instead? I would pay big money for that. Kicking a ball around the back yard with a robot which responds every two minutes, not really.
A reader mistook me for one of these robot kicking wannabe's.
He wrote to me on my new support desk, and said - rather amusingly I thought:
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