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To: J Fieb who wrote (3942)	8/29/2001 9:20:18 PM
From: Joe Wagner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

Japan to invest in robotics By CNET News.com Staff CNET News.com The Japanese government plans to invest in order to expand the robotics industry, a move that could speed the development of robots that act as nurses, entertain people or carry out dangerous tasks. >>>Before robots could reach this level of sophistication, however, breakthroughs in artificial intelligence will be needed. As a result, subsidies will be available to companies developing improved voice- and image-recognition systems.<<< A while back on this thread, meta data was discussed, for future video cameras. Using a CPU on the video camera to convert images and voices to meta data (maybe in 10 years from now?), along with recording GPS coordinates, Temperature, Time & Date, Color of Clothes,etc. for future video database searches. It would allow video streams on home video cameras to stream over the internet to storage sites where people could easily do random searchs of their video files, for persons, places, cold days, hot days, red shirts, blue shirts, etc... I know Sony recently announced a new video camera that dials up the internet and streams video over the internet, just like I suggested in my old post. Reading the article above about Robots and Japan's emphasis on Image Recognition and Voice Recognition, made me think of the streaming video camera of the future, that compiles meta data in the video stream. It made me think about the possibility that maybe someday when they can build robots like in Star Wars, the brains/CPUs will have evolved out of mass produced wireless video cameras that develop powerful processing for image recognition, and network it, with powerful servers over the wireless internet; giving that added boost of artificial intelligence necessary for robots to carry out more complex assignments. They might evolve like drones and refer back over the network to check their data against the mother network to see if they are operating correctly in all given the situations. If the drones and the mother network, developed the abilities to learn, from the experiences recorded for all the drones on the network, robots could start becoming very advanced. Robots could maybe even take over FedEx deliveries, or drive buses and taxis. Then again maybe we need another 100 years for anything close to that. If robots ever do become that advanced, with image recognition, it will add a strange twist to life, when every robot greets you with your name (after scanning the network face file for a few seconds) and knows everything about you, and is programmed to carry on pleasant small talk while in your presence. Wednesday August 29 06:00 PM EDT dailynews.yahoo.com Cheers, Joe