Nexi - MIT's latest robot

**Skeptical** · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:03 pm Post subject: Nexi - MIT's latest robot

OK, I admit it, I'm a sucker for a good robot story. The latest is from the whiz kids at MIT. They have constructed Nexi, a robot that does an awfully good job of mimicking human facial expressions. I tell you, folks, we'll be buying hamburgers from these things within 10 years:

Seriously, if they can make these things cost effective, an entire class of jobs (one currently filled by people from an unnamed Central American nation) could effectively disappear. But that reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut's first novel, Player Piano. If everything is eventually done by machines, what exactly will be left for people to do?

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