Plodding (into the) Future

Fifteen years after Asimo's debut, we're still waiting for a better humanoid robot.

Remember when you first saw videos of the humanoid robot, Asimo, walking on two legs, climbing stairs, hopping on one foot? Wasn't it amazing? Asimo made "his" debut in the year 2000. That was 15 years and 7 cycles of Moore's Law ago. If Singularitarian reasoning held together and advances in AI tracked Moore's law, today's robots would be 128 times more sophisticated than robots from the year 2000. We should see humanoid robots walking around today that make Asimo look quaint by comparison. Where are they? KMO talks with Eric Boyd about failed technoutopian visions in this episode of the C-Realm Podcast.

Music by Inspired Flight.