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March 09, 2005

Thinking robots – not quite yet

Noel Sharkey is in the mood to debunk a few myths.
The 56-year-old professor of computer science at Sheffield University is at the forefront of robotic technology in this country and there's a few things he wants to get off his chest.
"Everybody wants to hear that robots are going to take over the world but it's not going to happen," he says.
"You get a lot of scientists, particularly American scientists, saying that robotics is about at the level of the rat at the moment, I would say it's not anywhere near even a simple bacteria."
With his gentle Irish lilt, long grey hair held back in a ponytail, this softly-spoken 56-year-old grandfather appears every bit the wacky scientist – he looks somewhere between The Fast Show's mad professor, Denzil Dexter, and a Grateful Dead fan.

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