>>>Lately, I have been seeing more and more types of robots appearing in the science news sites. A few weeks (or so) ago I saw an article showing off the 12 best robots. They all had one common talent; They could dance and sing. Why would anyone spend 100k+ for a machine that has less abilities then a 5 year old? Can it make me a pot of coffee? Can it clean me house? What else can it do but dance and sing?
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>>>Sorry, have a weird day...
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>>J. Craig Venter, the director of Genomics (
http://www.jcvi.org/ ) has proposed a radical robot idea.
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>>His idea involves solving the current unmanageable task of analyzing the 80 million genes they've discovered so far, and of breaking down the human genome into understandable concepts through exceedingly complex analysis. He proposes creating tiny, custom-built, genetic manipulation machines which conduct the research permutations for man on segments of the human genome, and on the various genes, that will determine at the rate of about a million per day per robot how those genes work, and which ones work best in combinations.
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>>To be clear: he desires to solve this problem by creating custom DNA sequences which build tiny protein-based robots, which ultimately carry out this work and report their findings in a usable way.
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>>Now there's a frightening thought if ever there was one ... man ... creating DNA-based protein machines of his own design.
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Background: Here's the first "synthetic life" he produced, injecting custom assembled DNA strands into yeast, where they remained viable and took over protein generation within the cell. http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/projects/first-self-replicating-synthetic-bacterial-cell/overview/>
>OK, But can they dance and sing? Only real robot can. Ask the Japanese. :-)
I just want to have my very own anthropomorphic time-travelling earless cat robot (with a phobia of mice) from the 22nd century and a 4-dimensional pocket from which he can retrieve various handy devices from the future.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doraemon
