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Can you imagine IBM Research ever developing a social robot companion? Intel CTO Justin Rattner can’t, but he’s happy for his own researchers to build one – and for the technology to find its way into the market. Eventually. Ask most techies of a certain age how a company should carry out research and development and they will …

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  1. Sir Runcible Spoon
    Paris Hilton

    Sir

    I can just imagine the queue to 'field test' these robot companions of which you speak :)

  2. TeeCee Gold badge
    Coat

    "...a social robot companion..."

    Ah. Fucking Terminators.....

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: "...a social robot companion..."

      > Ah. Fucking Terminators.....

      <Austrian_Accent>

      "Live with me if you want to come."

      </Austrian_Accent>

    2. ACx

      Re: "...a social robot companion..."

      Or.......

      Ah, fucking fembots.......

      Yum.

      1. Uncle Slacky Silver badge
        Mushroom

        Re: "...a social robot companion..."

        DON'T DATE ROBOTS!!!!!!

        1. Wade Burchette
          Joke

          Re: "...a social robot companion..."

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtqGTn7PCBw

          The space pope warned us about dating a robot. I wouldn't want to get electo-gonorrhea, the noisy killer.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Go stick your head in a pig

    Well we now know who will be first against the wall when the revolution comes.

  4. Tel Starr
    Terminator

    So...

    Would you prefer a robot who serves you beer, or one that nags you all the time?

    1. MJI Silver badge

      Re: So...

      Hmm Harry Mudd and the Stella androids

  5. DrXym

    The only thing people care about

    Is it built for "pleasure"?

  6. graeme leggett Silver badge
    Coat

    looking foward to my robot dog

    he just won't like swamps, Brighton beach, gravel pits or quarries.

    Mine's the one with the robot brain in the pocket and the note about fitting it with the arrow pointing forward

  7. Don Jefe
    Happy

    Shame Really

    The focus on technologies that have a predefined roadmap is a shame. It has certainly made a lot of people a lot of money, but without the purely academic research component technology is stuck in second gear: Making incremental improvements on technologies developed at those 'quaint old fashioned labs'. There really aren't many groundbreaking new foundation technologies being turned out. The lack of totally new tech is also major factor in the escalating patent wars. There are only so many ways to uniquely leverage decades old tech.

    It is easy to look through the Captain Hindsight spectacles that come with every MBA and fault Bell for not realizing the potential of the transistor but without that research where would we be? I think it is funny, in a sad way, that a guy from transistor giant Intel is using devices full of transistors to say that there is no longer a place for the type of research that developed transistors.

  8. Justicesays
    Joke

    Sounds familiar

    "Just a heads up: We're gonna have a superconductor turned up full blast and pointed at you for the duration of this next test. I'll be honest, we're throwing science at the wall here to see what sticks. No idea what it'll do. Probably nothing. Best-case scenario, you might get some superpowers. Worst case, some tumors, which we'll cut out."

    1. BorkedAgain
      Thumb Up

      Re: Sounds familiar

      Love that guy,

      "I'm Cave Johnson. We're done here."

  9. Robert Helpmann??
    Childcatcher

    Check out...

    ... Robot & Frank. An OK movie with a realistic (I think) portrayal of what a robot companion might actually be like.

  10. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    The lovebot from "Serenity"

    "He killed me, Mal. Killed me with a sword....." I also like the little wave she gives when she is first introduced.

    Paris, while she still trumps the android competition!!

  11. MJI Silver badge

    Hmm Robots

    I can think of a few I would like.

    Clank must be high up

    Also I do like ED-E

  12. Highlander
    Paris Hilton

    Chobits

    Go watch Chobits and tell me you don't want a synthetic human companion.....

  13. ecofeco Silver badge
    Coat

    I have the new business division name

    "Skintel"

    Brings new to meaning to "...inside".

    Alright. Who took my coat?!

    (but seriously, anyone remember :"Cherry 2000"?)

  14. Bob Merkin
    Terminator

    That's odd

    I thought most Androids ran on ARM chips.

  15. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    D.A.D.O.E.S.

    2013 - Intel Labs

    2014 - Intel becomes the Tyrell Corporation

    2019 - Tyrell releases the Nexus 6 Replicant Android

  16. Mostor Astrakan
    Happy

    I know of a commercial for this

    "Your plastic pal who's fun to beeeee with!"

  17. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Galloping Galaxies

    Robot no 35. nuff said

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