NEC ROBOT GETS AVATAR PAL TO TALK TO YOUR HOME DEVICES

Personal Robot PaPeRo gets smarter....according to www.pinktentacle.com NEC just announced new tech that enables PaPeRo household robot to connect with personal devices by using a digital avatar that “follows” you ,appears on the screen( on the device) and interacts with you.NEC's PaPeRo robot gets digital . Hollywood2020 wants to know why PaPeRo can't just embed the devices within it's body-- why can't it BE THE TV, BE THE MP3 PLAYER, BE THE CAMCORDER, BE THE DVD PLAYER-- all that metal and no guts? Let's see how smart the avatar can get, previous explanations show that the personal robot is authomomous -- and they show it going to sleep on the couch -- just another couch potato? Most women would not tolerate for another authomomous agent during football games hanging out on the couch! Japanese execs should get a clue! In case you haven't seen the NEC guidelines for their personal robots-- we're reprinting them here-- pretty kewl huh--not unlike guidelines for real people in real relationships -- except the artifact stuff (which I'm sure is really just a language translation goof -- artifacts in our culture go in the attic or are banned to the Goodwill or if worth something-- sold at a yardsale or carried off to the Antiques Roadshow...people generally aren't artifacts? But then some that I know bear a close resemblance to them sometimes! The three principles of the NEC robot

NEC says online: What kinds of things do we want for robots to achieve the "world with personal robots in mind" that we introduced earlier? We present the following 3 items required for robots from the point of view of "interaction with people." 1)To understand one's partner - not with an ID or password, but with a 'natural form'. 2)Having individual characteristics -having and asserting one's sense of values 3)Having specialties (having some things superior to people) -    so as to live as an artifact - (ARTIFACT???? that's sure as clear as MUD comments blogger Joyce Schwarz, Hollywood 2020.blogs.com.