The featured guest there today was Ken Goldberg who's a
professor at UC Berkeley in the field of artificial intelligence
and robotics. Today he was talking robots. Here's a trivia
question: Who first coined the word robot? Give up? The word
robot, it turns out, was used in a science fiction play by Karel
Čapek in 1920. It means work, or literally “serf labor.” One of
the things I found interesting about the talk was the growing
field of cloud robotics. By now lots of folks have heard about
Google’s self-driving car. A Patch blogger recently wrote a post
on how . Well Google uses the internet to navigate the cars,
according to Goldberg. It uses Google street view and cloud
robotics. Goldberg says you used to have to put the robot’s
brains onboard. Now it can be done with cloud robotics. He
claims this is also how Siri voice recognition works. Hirsch
said “if you’re a fan of the Terminator franchise as I am, you
worry about the rise of the machines.” So, is anyone worried
about cars driving themselves around th