Robots: Taking the Biscuit
The day is dawning, so they say, when your personal domestic robot will trundle to fulfil your merest whim. It is already possible to programme one to make you a cup of coffee. But what if you then decided you'd like a biscuit too - chocolate of course? Jane Lapotaire wanted a biscuit; but the robot didn't want to know. Q.E.D. explores what would be involved in designing a robot that could see, recognise, aim and reach for, hold and hand her this biscuit - and, on the way, discovers quite a lot about what people can do too.
Series editor DAVID FlLKlN Producer SHEILA HAYMAN
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