Millennia Bot Gets You Excited, Then Lets You Down
Writing by Conner Flynn on Thursday, 11 of October , 2007 at 11:54 pm
When Millenia was released yesterday, humans thought they were getting a smart conversational robot. It was said that the robot could effectively communicate with people across all ethnicities, age groups and in any type of environment. They even said he was multilingual. He was a great PR bot too, capable of being used as a marketing, advertising, promotional, educational or entertainment tool. And hey, he even had Wi-Fi. How cool. Humans thought they had a C-3P0 at last. You know, human/cyborg relations. The kind of annoying bot that would tell you it was fluent in 6 million languages, including the binary language of bachi moisture evaporators.
Then everyone found out that this robot, who looks a bit cartoony in a creepy alien way, is really a remote presence device. That means that actual human beings remotely provide the voice and such. Oh well. But hey it still has Wi-Fi. That’s gotta count for something right? In short, this is not the droid you’re looking for. Move along!
[PRNewser] VIA [Engadget]
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