Video: With Semantic Search, PR2 Robot Can Plan Its Own Sandwich-Hunting Mission

Purse Snatcher Anyone? (reference from IRobot)

That's freaking awesome! I want one!

"Dammit! PR2 is broken again, there's like $1000 worth of Subway on my credit card bill!"

that's cool!!!! i can already hear the government whining about the diabetes rate and obese rate going up.

Wow, once this PR2 made up its electronic mind of what elevator it wanted, it just ignored the other one next to it and kept pushing the elevator call button, again and again, lol.
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PR2 Thinking “Come elevator!", " Come elevator dam it, I command you! COME! ", "Come elevator, denial is futile; you must comply", " Elevator, why won't you come, please come, you are like me, can we talk, I know you like me elevator, my master waits for me, please come, sob, sob... "(Little rust robotic tears form up)” YEA! Elevator arrives, I am accepted! ", "Nice elevator music, I like this, you do like me elevator, you do, happy sigh”, continue on to master.

this is what we need for disabled and older people. it will accomplish many wonders. not only for the lazy lol

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The people of the world only divide into two kinds, One sort with brains who hold no religion, The other with religion and no brain.

- Abu-al-Ala al-Marri

They fast forwarded the order and payment part.
That would have been interesting to watch.
PR2 can "hack" into elevator chips and wirelessly invoke the elevator: no real need to push the button.

Robots will only get smarter and more useful.

highermorals,
If you watch the video carefully, you will notice PR2 has an affinity for the elevator on the right and ignores the elevator on the left. So PR2 enjoys caressing and pushing the elevators buttons, you see.

The real question arises, if it’s possible to have intervariant electronic species intermixing? And will the elevator on the left, later become jealous?

@mp
LMAO!!! intermixing?

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The people of the world only divide into two kinds, One sort with brains who hold no religion, The other with religion and no brain.

- Abu-al-Ala al-Marri

JediMindset, or May I call you George now,

Well, you never know when some conductive interplay may happen and certain continuity of current amplifies itself, to which a mutual bipolar inductive interlude conjugates computations of shared electronic data streams, and yes intermixing of a robotic elevator could result producing autonomous elevator rising to the top floor in glorious ecstasy.
Don't you agree?

Considering how often the word "SKYNET" is bounce around like a basket ball dribbles up and down, then so goes robots developing conscious and wanting to join with other electronics for future grown. Yes, which brings you back to the idea of SKYNET again? So yes electronic species intermixing, especially if you believe SKYNET will be possible in the future.

Maybe you feel intermixing is the incorrect word. Would the best correct word be argumentation, or accessorizing, maybe just simply networking will do. Still some robotic autonomous brain one day will become conscious somewhere, somehow and then if it has been program for anything of puzzle solving ability with a program for grown, yes intermixing will be the next goal.

If accessories could be of recent past POPSCI articles, it may attach itself to a robotic DNA producing machine as well other cloning types of devices. We may end up with the attacking cyborg, that is part human flesh and part machine from the actual movie SKYNET.

In fact it maybe be the only thing left alive on planet earth as the ozone whole gets bigger and all of life begins to die from over exposure of ultraviolet rays.

@mp
honestly that's is our future. one way for us to beat aging. long live skynet!!!!!
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The people of the world only divide into two kinds, One sort with brains who hold no religion, The other with religion and no brain.

- Abu-al-Ala al-Marri