Rodney Brooks on advancing the use of robots in the world (speech from the Makir Fair).
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Its true – machines we use at the moment are extremely highly geared and take an awful lot of investment, for a very very limited role. A flexble robot will bring manufacturing costs for Fast Moving Consumer Goods tumbling down.