Ancient folk to get robots to help drive them madder
TOYOTA MADE A SONG and a dance yesterday about "partner robots" to help old people around and to "entertain them" too.
The firm showed off a robot playing Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance" on a violin, and a buggy that can speed them around on our pavements at six kilometres an hour.
The 1.5 metre tall, 56Kg robot is part of a big push Toyota is making into developing other "partner robots" which perhaps will do more useful things like light pipes for the poor old folk, and fetch them a chota peg at sundown.
Nikkei.net
points out that the most successful robots so far have been vacuum cleaners and
toys. The article mentioned the "Furby", which we've tried to forget about -
thanks guys - and the Sony dog, which was unceremoniously put down last year.
The "mobility robot" is a two wheeler sort of electronic bath chair which can follow a person, avoid obstacles, and will travel 20 kilometres on one single charge.
Perhaps Toyota would care to put together the Jock McFrock, a bekilted robot capable of dispensing 25 pints of whisky at one go, and which you can send down to Tesco to pick up 200 fags? ยต
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That bekilted robot would have to be bought more than 18 years ago before being allowed to buy a carton of fags wouldn't he? 

Quite the wait.
200 fags? So now the robots are being sent out trolling for sex....
Only the limited edition Village People, YMCA singing robots do that.
Robots, by definition, don't have agesist issues, so they can go out and buy cigarettes, whisky and wild wild women. Or wild wild men. For men, and for women.

Robots don't seem to care about gender specific issues. They don't drink, they don't smoke, and they don't have sex. They are like humans in the 21st century.

They don't understand the difference between a million and a billion or a trillion either. In one die, you can have many such transistors. But do any of them think?

Have you never read Asimov's Laws of Robotics? It is what I call something what Isaac Asimov wrote in what was called a book.