Thursday, 8 March, 2012

ABE: Living with robots—step 1, your vacuum

Robots aren’t an integral part of most people’s day-to-day lives just yet, but robotic vacuum cleaners have been popping up in more and more homes in recent years. So is robotics today the equivalent of the computer in the 1980s? Is it only a matter of time before none of us can imagine life without robots managing our domestic chores? ABE, the Consumer Show investigates what it’s like to live with one of these “robovacs” and whether they can modify human behavior:

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