Comments on: Robotic luggage follows you around, doesn’t eat annoying people…yet http://futurismic.com/2007/11/13/robotic-luggage-follows-you-around-doesnt-eat-annoying-peopleyet/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:52:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: CatBar http://futurismic.com/2007/11/13/robotic-luggage-follows-you-around-doesnt-eat-annoying-peopleyet/comment-page-1/#comment-7075 CatBar Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:10:54 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2007/11/13/robotic-luggage-follows-you-around-doesnt-eat-annoying-peopleyet/#comment-7075 It would be brilliant to have a robot (suitcase or otherwise) that dealt with annoying people - but it would have to have its First and Second Laws modified in some way so that it could actually do something effective to get rid of the annoyances. (Ei pick them up in one hand and dump them in something nasty!) It would be brilliant to have a robot (suitcase or otherwise) that dealt with annoying people – but it would have to have its First and Second Laws modified in some way so that it could actually do something effective to get rid of the annoyances. (Ei pick them up in one hand and dump them in something nasty!)

]]> By: Karl Jones http://futurismic.com/2007/11/13/robotic-luggage-follows-you-around-doesnt-eat-annoying-peopleyet/comment-page-1/#comment-6823 Karl Jones Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:41:39 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2007/11/13/robotic-luggage-follows-you-around-doesnt-eat-annoying-peopleyet/#comment-6823 A similar device -- the autoporter -- appears in "The Shockwave Rider" by John Brunner: "...he nabbed an autoporter and - after consulting the illuminated fee table on its flank - credded the minimum: $35 for an hour's service... From now until his credit expired the machine would carry his bag in its soft plastic jaws and follow him as faithfully as a well-trained hound, which indeed it resembled, down to the whimper it was programmed to utter at the 55-minute mark, and the howl at 58. At 60 it would drop the bag and slink away. " <a href="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=191" rel="nofollow">Link</a>. A similar device — the autoporter — appears in “The Shockwave Rider” by John Brunner:

“…he nabbed an autoporter and – after consulting the illuminated fee table on its flank – credded the minimum: $35 for an hour’s service…

From now until his credit expired the machine would carry his bag in its soft plastic jaws and follow him as faithfully as a well-trained hound, which indeed it resembled, down to the whimper it was programmed to utter at the 55-minute mark, and the howl at 58.

At 60 it would drop the bag and slink away. ”

Link.

]]> By: Robert Koslover http://futurismic.com/2007/11/13/robotic-luggage-follows-you-around-doesnt-eat-annoying-peopleyet/comment-page-1/#comment-6288 Robert Koslover Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:00:47 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2007/11/13/robotic-luggage-follows-you-around-doesnt-eat-annoying-peopleyet/#comment-6288 I wonder about security issues for air travel. The large battery and/or electronics package might be reconfigured to conceal weapons or explosives. If it cannot be approved for use by aircraft passengers, it may generate only a few customers. I wonder about security issues for air travel. The large battery and/or electronics package might be reconfigured to conceal weapons or explosives. If it cannot be approved for use by aircraft passengers, it may generate only a few customers.

]]> By: Jeremy Eades http://futurismic.com/2007/11/13/robotic-luggage-follows-you-around-doesnt-eat-annoying-peopleyet/comment-page-1/#comment-5997 Jeremy Eades Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:19:48 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2007/11/13/robotic-luggage-follows-you-around-doesnt-eat-annoying-peopleyet/#comment-5997 Not quite luggage, but I saw something on TV recently about a department store in Japan where your shopping cart would follow you around. Not quite luggage, but I saw something on TV recently about a department store in Japan where your shopping cart would follow you around.

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