At long last, my people are returning to Earth. BoingBoing pal Roland says:
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Peter Hill, of the Australian robotic company Kadence Photonics, has reprogrammed robots to give them some “feminine” intuition. As wrote the author, “a robot that thinks like your mum may be running your kitchen and home sooner than you think.” Peter Hill’s new method of programming robots [is] based on co-operation rather than exploitation. These reprogrammed robots, Michelle, Romy and Goldie, “are able to switch between a number of jobs according to priority and circumstance.” “If a man does the housework, he’ll load the washing machine then stand there and watch it,” Dr Hill said. “A woman will go off and do something else.” Check this summary for more details.