Briefly: Woz Bullish On Bots
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 26 of September , 2007 at 3:53 am
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has always been on the bleeding edge of what’s new and techy, all the way from Segway Polo to Kathy Griffin. So it’s great to hear that he’s looking to the personal robotics market to develop in much the same way as the personal computer market did, through easy programmability. Here’s an excerpt from an eWeek article about an event he spoke at this past weekend:
Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak says one of the primary emerging technologies that is capturing his imagination these days is area of robotics and how artificial intelligence will be applied on those types of systems. Wozniak said he hopes that someday the robotics field will take a page from the personal computer era by creating robots that are easily programmable by users to perform specific tasks rather than solely focusing on creating system that are preprogrammed to perform specific functions. “People want things that are useful as opposed to things that do a lot of little things that we call artificial intelligence,” said Wozniak.
First Bill Gates, now Woz? Hmm, maybe we’re actually on to something here…
[ eWeek ] VIA [ Robots.net ]
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