Robots to Get Boss Upgrades
From: Wired News - 03/15/2004
By: Mark Baard

Attendees at this week's Emerging Robotic Technologies and Applications
Conference attested that next-generation robots will not just have military
applications, but entertainment and caregiver applications as well. IRobot
co-founder Rodney Brooks, whose company invented the Roomba robot vacuum
cleaner, opined that engineers should start developing robots that can assist
the elderly, predicting that tomorrow's major robot applications will focus
on the growing populations of the aged in Japan, Europe, and the United
States.  

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