• Question: can robots read?

    Asked by confuddled213 to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 28 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 28 Jun 2012:

      Lasers have been used to read bar codes for a long time, and people have developed iPhone apps which can read (and translate) signs using the camera. All you need to do is put one of these on a robot.

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 28 Jun 2012:

      Yep, I agree. Didn’t Sony make a robot that could walk and read last year or the year before?

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