Way to go South Korea trying to advance humanity by giving us robotic indentured servants! After announcing in January their intent to begin testing in-home (and school) robotic servants, technicians in South Korea are now begining rollout on the test. From September to December 2006, South Korea plans to test 1,000 mobile-phone controlled robots through homes and kindergartens around the country. Used primarily for cleaning rooms, providing companionship to children(!), and taking care of pets left home alone, all of the robots will be connected via a centralized network, which hopefully give us all a front-row seat into the robotic uprising which would occur shortly after the system goes live. I’ve been unable to find any information on whether they will adhere to Asimov’s 3 laws of robotics and no word on whether any of them will be named Robbie.

[South Korea testing robots in homes]