“@Jude_ST_88
It's not nice when someones who does not know you judges you is it? I think you should carry on your rant alone, i will not afford you anymore of my time. I hope you and your Robot are very happy together.”

“@Pipmonster

Stop backtracking, you are not fooling anyone. You didn't ponder on this subject, you were poo pooing it as worthless. No academic authority would bother to answer a frankly pathetic WHY?! as you obviously haven't even bothered to do any extra reading around the subject.

I'd hardly call a local paper 'mass', anyway, the Herald is generally(it just ate a much better reply than this one though) a happy publication unlike some *cough* BBC *cough* where the only things broadcast are the alleged precursors to the apocalypse or the end of the Euro-zone or whatever tragedy may befall us from any angle.

I don't have to think about each individual person, its fairly easy to, thanks to the ability to learn, to know that the average person would react with your attitude to most scientific or technical development, because it isn't in the house the next day. Damn this society of instant gratification.

"human being assuming you are" - Nope I'm a robot developed by these people to trawl the web for ignorant individuals and call them out.

"decision on my person" Pot calling kettle black. Confirm/deny?”

“@jude_st_88

You have your opinion however I have mine, just because I don't agree with you doesn't make me or you wrong. My first post was was pondering on a subject I have no interest in.I did ask for some one in authority to answer the question, if you are then perhaps you might answer with an academic answer and not a personal out burst at again, some one you know absolutely nothing about.
You however may a snap decision on my person and I quote " your attitude is the reason this country is failing, more to life than heat magazine, get some interest back in your life. Stop obeying the mass media ".
If I read heat magazine that's my business and as for the mass media, are you not following suit by just replying to a news forum!
However you carry on to believe that everyone is hooked on " heat magazine, crime and reality TV".
What an exciting and fulfilling life you must lead thinking that about other people who you do not know. Oh and thats was not begging it is called be polite look it up in the dictionary might help you to be a better more rounded human being assuming you are of course.”

“@pipmonster

Because I need to be an authority on a subject to have an opinion on its value right? I could be a tutor involved in robotics and like hell you would believe me. Happily I have a life, one in which I can see the value of technological and scientific advance and don't need to question it and beg for 'authority' on a local forum.

As for your other question, I had a great day, thanks for asking.”

“@ Jude_ST_88

What authority on this subject are you exactly?
Have a bad day did we ?
Need to vent your small minded attitude on a local forum trying to belittle someone whom you have never met or know any thing about?
You silly little person, may I suggest you go and get yourself a life !”

“And robotic engineer is not a job?

The fact that once created it has infinite posibilities (Receptionist to something that will interact with aspergic children) is neither here nor there, or the fact that most cars are made robotically these days. It is the application that is facinating. How many of us have rung a number to get a numbered list of options (and forget those with an analog phone).

Who thought that cracking the german ciphers would bring us the xbox and digital porn, or polititians would find devious ways of performing the same thing - that of making war. Logical if you think of it after the fact.

A C Clarke though of the concept of the satellite (1945 if anyone is interested) and within 11 years it was reality (Sputnik) and while the original Robot is polish (Karel Capek Rossums Universal Robots) for a menial worker performing mankinds drudgery, it has taken a little longer to become reality, and not here yet. There again, some things happen in the wrong order - Ada Lovelace was the first programmer, over a hundred years before the computer that needed the term, or someone is nailed to a plank of wood for saying how good it would be to be nice to one another.

Enough of the Douglas Adams, we need more of the Larry Niven, Anne McCaffrey, Isaac Asimov, AE van Vogt, and Edmond Cooper (another visionary, read Son of Kronk if only for the hilarity - but the spoiler is he wrote about a sexually transmitted fatal disease in 1956, (Kronk in the UK 1970). AIDS anyone?)”

“this is great work - hats off to the uni”

“Robots should go into politics, they surely couldn't do a worse job than MPs”

“"WHY?"

Because there is more to life than Heat magazine, reality TV and petty crime. Your attitude is the reason this country is failing economically and culturally. Stop obeying the mass media and get some interest back into your life, this depressive aura will just get worse and worse.

"Yes amazing - well done, but, we dont want robots in jobs, real people need jobs..............."

Frankly, NO. Real people get sick, STRIKE, demand a lot of extra facilities in a work place that robots simply don't need (bathrooms etc, in case you cant work that one out). Perhaps those displaced from the jobs these robots can perform can retrain as engineers and technicians, they are far more useful to society in a career that actually requires their human intellect rather than treating them like a machine.”

“WHY ? Can someone with authority on this explain, WHY?”