OPINION LETTERS

摘要

From Vivek Burhanpurkar Helen Greiner's call to design practical robots really hit the nail on the head (21 January, p 20). I was an early pioneer in autonomous human-scale robotics. My friends often ask me why I'm no longer "in the game", building walking, talking robots.I tell them it's because the world does not need humanoid robots. examples of cost-effective cleaning and nuclear reconnaissance are perfect ones. Research dollars should focus on such practical tasks rather than on the dancing and bicycling variety. Researchers may argue that dancing robots encourage creative development of new technology, but I would suggest the trend has got out of hand.