By Janie Morton
January 21, 2014
A humanoid robot, (click here) which resembles the classic character from Lost in Space, has become the first of its kind to hit the New Zealand market.
But the age of robots washing our dishes, emptying our rubbish and putting the kids to bed is still the stuff of science fiction, an expert says.
American company Rethink Robotics says its Baxter Research Robot, which has long flexible arms and a screen for a face, is going on sale in New Zealand and Australia.
Baxter, previously available only in the US, Europe and Japan is being distributed and supported through an Australian supplier.
It has an open source platform, allowing its users to customise it for a range of uses....
The reaction of a robot replacing a human being in need of work was more than interesting than not. A small family owned business going to a global network is aware of the importance of job availability to the USA. I hope that morality continues and means something to them realizing they can cause poverty to occur rather than an expanding demand in their market.
An automated company cannot have a market place without employees to purchase the products they support in the market place.
