The Gadget Guy

Colin Baker: the dawning of the age of the robot

Colin Baker.

So Robot Jeeves is still evidently absent from our homes, and robots like that friendly little electronic dude in the film Robot and Frank are still just a pipe dream. But are we on the cusp of the age of Robotics? Google's director of engineering, Ray Kurzweil, is not the stupidest of men: he predicted the rise of the internet and the fact that a computer would beat a Chess grand master by ...