ROBOTS FOR HUMANITY

Since starting to work more and more with people who are in high-tech, web development and bio-tech industry, I have been pleasantly surprised to meet or find out about amazing people, many of them fellow Romanians. 

I am therefore happy to read about the Romanian computer scientist Matei Ciocirlie and his project, Robots for Humanity. Mr. Ciocirlie has built robots which help people with severe disabilities. And I like the name of the offices where he works Willow Garage and I love the way he summarizes the difficulty of programming robots: 

"The problem with computers is that they do what we tell them to, not what we want them to."


Please read the full article bellow. 

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_22100290/chat-scientists-who-make-robots-help-disabled-people?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com