Flying robots to start serving in restaurants by end-2015

[yeokiwi]

How about a coffee machine selling robot?

Nestle is going to deploy 1000 robots at $2000 each in Japan to sell coffee machines. Pretty interesting.

[brattzz]

that's just a smart vending machine, that's all...

[specuvestor]

Frankly it is those that have grown up with tech that are ironically more cautious about tech because we know what can go wrong. Like I posted in the Google car project, I would be very wary of driving an automated car without a manual override. Automated plane landing is good... but when Korean pilots can't land the plane with the auto-pilot disengaged, something is seriously wrong.

People have too much faith in tech and numbers nowadays

I am seriously worried that people have too much faith in tech... and I'm a a tech guy. Like Einstein himself said "I fear the day technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots". Even simple mailing system can go wrong... not to mention complex systems

(Bloomberg) -- It’s that time of year when colleges give
out anxiously awaited news of some acceptances, and yet another
one failed to do it right.
Johns Hopkins University sent “welcome” notes to 294
early-decision applicants on Sunday who two days earlier had
been refused admission to its undergraduate college, the school
said today.
“It was a congratulatory message,” said Dennis O’Shea, a
spokesman for the school in Baltimore, in an e-mailed statement.
“It also contained information relevant to accepted students,
such as where they can get Johns Hopkins gear, and pointed them
toward social networking sites and to a special hashtag.”
While applying through a school’s early-decision program
can increase the odds of being admitted, it requires accepted
students to enroll. Consequently, many students apply to their
first choice on an early-decision basis.
“We very much regret having added to the disappointment
felt by a group of very capable and hardworking students,
especially ones who were so committed to the idea of attending
Johns Hopkins that they applied early decision,” O’Shea said.
With the gaffe, Johns Hopkins joins a list of prestigious
universities that have sent applicants confusing and sometimes
painful messages. In February, the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology mistakenly sent some applicants a note with the
tagline “You are on this list because you are admitted to
MIT.” The university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, chalked it up
to an error in computerized mailing.

More Misfires

In 2012, the University of California at Los Angeles sent
an e-mail to 894 students who had been wait-listed for
admission, inadvertently suggesting they had been admitted. The
same year, 76 applicants to Vassar College received an e-mail
letter from the college that erroneously stated they had been
accepted.
Johns Hopkins received 1,865 early-decision applications
from students, of whom 539 were accepted and 1,326 weren’t, the
university said. Students were able to access this information
on the school website as of Dec. 12. On Dec. 14, the school sent
out the congratulatory message that mistakenly went to some
students who weren’t accepted.
The university in Baltimore has sent apology notes to all
those affected, according to the statement.
“This was an unacceptable error and we are working to
ensure that nothing of this nature happens again,” O’Shea said.