Artificial Intelligence is Coming

->Sony played this video at their executive conference this  year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY

They predict human level intelligence on a supercomputer by 2013.  
Is this probably too soon to expect human level AI?   More

Here is the 2007 contest for best robot.  Winner is the Fanuc M430IA shown in the following
video:
























Nao Robot Video:























Japanese Household Robot will wash your dishes:























But humans are meaner: http://www.lowellstanley.com/






















Spykee Spy Robot























Voice commands over Skype


Artificial Intelligence for Wikipedia





















Picking up wounded soldiers:





















High-speed robotic hands can dribble ball.  Note that the body wiggles around.























Food preparation robot is slow for now:






















http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXynMKMFNnA


We are 'on the cusp' of having robots everywhere according to Rodney Brooks back in 2003:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdyRmdv-KiY

Now in 2008, androids look more human:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVxYYII7Aa0
They predict that the service robot market will rise to US$10 billion within 10 years.  Obviously
it will be much larger than that.

2009 Robocup finals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaXtnqjk4Bc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLsIn7PQw0g

Titan the Robot is a fake.  A human in robot clothing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-QtDAgjJrQ

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