PaPeRo Blogging Robot
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PaPeRo Blogging Robot
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Okay, we all know the Robot scenario: we get sick of doing manual labor, so we build a robot to do it. That robot is programmed to do all sorts of mindless jobs, but we, with our superior creator intellect will do all the operations like writing. Well, not quite. You see, someone actually working on a robot that blogs.
NEC Corporation has developed a prototype called the PaPeRo. I'm not certain if its name is supposed to be some abbreviation of something, but this robot designed to create multimedia blogs. As you can tell by the picture, the PaPeRo looks like a cute anime critter that apparently you are supposed to be comfortable having a chat with.
That's right. You interface with the PaPeRo via conversation, and you tell it about your day, just like you would write in your blog. The PaPeRo then processes your conversation by searching for keywords. It surfs the net for you, and finds you the appropriate video and audio images that you would use for a blog entry.
For example, let's say I sit in front of the PaPeRo and do my blog. "Today, I went to work, and heard the song 'Living On A Prayer' by Bon Jovi. I couldn't get it out of my head. I then did my accounting work for Nike, Inc. and then watched the newest Tom Cruise movie on Blu-ray." From what I understand, it sounds like the PaPeRo would analyze my monologue and create a blog entry with my conversation in text.
We already have machines programmed to do that, but apparently the PaPeRo would take it to the next level. I imagine that my aforementioned blog entry would then automatically contain hyperlinks to Bon Jovi, Nike, Tom Cruise, and so on. I imagine that it would do it with keyword searches, but this can't be very accurate. After all, how many times have you entered a word or series of words into a search engine, and it gave out everything that you weren't looking for?
The sad part is, I really feel like I need one of these. Bloggers like me have this obsessive tendency to blog simply because we feel we have to record our daily life, so we and others do not forget the menial little things that sum up our life. However, we have to be realistic, because I can honestly say that I hardly ever reread my past blogs.
At least the record is there, though. So in case historians dig up our life after we die, those records will be forever online. I think if NEC wants to continue with the PaPeRo, then they don't need to put the device in a robotic housing. I don't want a robot to talk to, I'd rather just talk to a friend and let the PaPeRo listen in.
Who knows? Maybe the PaPeRo can make my day actually sound more interesting than it actually was with a few audio and visual links.
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