ASIMO which is a humanoid robot created by Honda is the most famous robot in the world. Now, do you know a robot which keeps blogging?
The robot’s name is “ApriAlpha” created by Toshiba in 2003. He is designed as home appliance with software called blogalpha that make it possible to control the robot through blog server.
How does he work?
-Set up the blog that can be only accessed by a family
-Write a comment what the family want him to do
-Blogalpha is always checking the blog. If there is a task to do, then command him through wireless LAN.
For example, if you write “what is my puppy doing?” as a comment, he goes to the place where your puppy is and take a photo, then upload the photo on the blog. You can check your puppy wherever you are through the computer or mobile phone!
Aprialpha does not do anything until he gets a comment on his blog. He is like a person who is addicted to blogging?!
Robots we have today exceed what we can do. But human behaviour is the inspiration for machine design as we learnt cyborg theory before. Now, the robot also keeps blog.
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