Applied Cyberpunk Part Two

Take this PC for example. A great homebrew by an accomplished tinkerer.

http://www.geek.com/chips/weekend-project-building-a-tiny-cheap-silent-nettop-991532/

Try this on for size. Embedded systems are all around us everyday. You see them in monitors and cash registers. We have cellphones with HDMI ports that could literally smoke laptops from five years ago. The amount of space needed to process information shrinks every day as newer and more minute technologies become available to the public.

Do you mean to tell me that one of these with some high density solid state drives and multi-core quantum chips couldn't function well enough to process the motor functions and visual and audio input necessary for an android?

Tinier PC form factors could usher the way for actual androids.

Voice recognition is about 3gb of space using off the shelf tech like Dragon Speak.

The navigational program in the Darpa/Boston Dynamics Big Dog Could not possibly take more than a few Gigs.

http://www.bostondynamics.com/img/BigDog_IFAC_Apr-8-2008.pdf

Navigational robotics ranges in the megabyte range.

For a visual system that recognizes faces using biometrics you still won't break the bank.

The Linux O.S. could fit on a D.V.D. with enough space for a whole movie.

Precise systems with low requirements could easily match the performance of these government projects that have made the news.

You could make your own UAV right now using similar off the shelf technology.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-UAV-for-research-and-photography/

So linking the technologies between robotics and computing could be simpler than we are making it.

We could embed systems right now in suitable companion type frames.

Try this on for size:

ATLAS+REALDOLL+REAL SKIN

We have got the technology to make these now.