New Zealand News – Technology – Robo-roach to eat up the dirt

26.02.2002

By SIMON COLLINS

Every home in First World countries will have its own cockroach-shaped robot to do the housework within 20 years, says a new New Zealand research team.

The three-person team of robotics experts moved en bloc from South Africa’s Natal University to open a new research centre at Massey University’s Albany campus.

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“Humanoid robots are available in Japan already. They can go round and do all the work in the home,” said Professor Glen Bright, Natal’s youngest associate professor and, at 35, head of Massey’s research centre.

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