Quickies

I will be traveling and having a merry Christmas over the next week so I may not have time for regular posts.

I will try to find time to to direct you to some interesting and worthwhile links.

The US postal service needs fewer people but humans still have to read handwritten addresses to keep the robots running.
Floridian: Robots that deliver
I wonder if they have thought of using Mechanical Turk.
Jobs of the future.


From GoRobotics.net: Hanson Robotics, creator of ultra-realistic robots like Albert Hubo and Phillip K Dick heads, is talking about making 2-foot humanoids for the home entertainment market.

robots.net found a video of a robot arm with a perfect handshake.

SB:Insects with their guts removed and replaced with delicate clockwork mechanisms. Kinda creepy?