Utility Robots

RoboPuppyRoboCatsWhen Aibos start appreciating the beauty of nature, what you get is artful dissonance, says Cory Doctorow. And cats, as always, will never understand it.

BanryuThen you have some perfectly dumb robots, like Banryu, who have neither a personality nor utility. Even if they were meant to be ``guard-dragons’’…