Don't unplug me, I'm your friend!

"I have felt for years that the first 'killer application' of personal robots will be companionship, especially for the elderly," said Roger Brockett, a professor of computer science and engineering at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

-- from this National Geographic story



The combination of robots and old people reminds me of the movie The Electric Grandmother. It was one of the first videos my family rented when we got a VCR, and I remember thinking it was kind of creepy. (Keep in mind, I was only 7 or 8.) I had no idea it was written by Ray Bradbury until I went looking for a link. That makes me want to watch it again.



Soundtrack for today: My Robot Friend, of course.