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Re:The Rise and Fall of Industrial Research Labs by jonmrodriguez on Thursday December 25, 2014 @06:02PM (#8797446)
There is a lot of low-hanging fruit in genetic engineering and robotics!
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Re:The Rise and Fall of Industrial Research Labs by fest on Thursday December 25, 2014 @06:29PM (#8797501)
Re: robotics- you mean low-hanging fruit research-wise or application-wise?

I'm not closely following latest research in this area but I get the feeling that most of the focus is geared towards autonomous cooperation and nano-scale. What are other directions?

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Re:The Rise and Fall of Industrial Research Labs by jonmrodriguez on Thursday December 25, 2014 @09:34PM (#8797808)
Application-wise :) Mostly I'm thinking that with cheap 3D-scanning sensors and GPUs, it's finally the beginning of the era for domestic and consumer robots to be viable.
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