Comments on: Scanning your home with kinect could improve 3D robot vision

By: Roland

Roland — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 06:36:52 +0000

Junkies aren’t the smartest people around. My guess, and I may be wrong here, is that it is WAY too complicated for just about anyone to do something like that. How many of your friends are hacking the computers that control the innards of their cars. About zero and your friends most likely are bit smarter than people that have been flushing their brain cells away for years with rather nasty chemicals.

Unlikely scenario.

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:38:24 +0000

You’re right, melajara. I was thinking about this when the article was posted here last week about the robots that cost as much as iPhones.

Junkies will steal heavy construction robots from worksites, drill through the locks on their access panels, and make them rob convenience stores. They’ll just march in, backhand the clerk, and rob the till. Of course they will also pick up an arm load of cigarettes and beer. Then they march back out to the stolen van where another stolen robot waits as driver. If the police catch them, they erase their instructions and can’t be traced back to the theives. Hell, the theives could be running this operations from Lenningrad.

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:30:20 +0000

You just aren’t whistling Dixie, GatorALLin. Someday soon third world labor will be working here by telepresence.

By: Bri

Bri — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:26:24 +0000

All my mothers jewelry that she kept at home, has been stolen by housekeepers. We have one we can trust ( we hope) now. It would be such an incentive to thieves, to hack the system. Same trouble at my shop. They’ll take whatever you can’t protect. I’m going to install survalence and have considered radio tags!! Closed loop robots aren’t motivated by greed or need.

By: GatorALLin

GatorALLin — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:09:32 +0000

Once you learn what the human would do in every situation, you can just program the decision chart into the robot so there is a smooth transition over to robot AI next… just a thought…

By: GatorALLin

GatorALLin — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:07:59 +0000

can we just outsource the cleaning to a person in india that drives the robot around and thus is human controlled..?. but pay low prices? Just a thought… and trying to free up my phone from this outsourcing… Yeah, you don’t want to give away your location to burglars… that would be bad.

By: melajara

melajara — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:42:20 +0000

You mean burglar robots feeding on this, first stealing the virtual home, next the real one!? LOL

By: Bri

Bri — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:11:23 +0000

Privacy and theft issues. Yea, that was my first thought!!!