Robots, this will be a regular topic here. Hollywood has made it obvious that robots will one day take over the world. They (the robots) will be all friendly, cute and helpful at first before they initiate their master plan of world domination and kill us all.

Anyway, this cute little robot called ApriPoko developed by folks at Toshiba is a talking robot that also functions as a voice-operated universal remote control for multiple home appliances. It is a prototype and still in development and testing phase.

ApriPoko is design to sit in the living room and watches as you use any remote control. Once it detect infra-red rays emitted by remote, it then will ask, “what did you just do?”. You then answer to ApriPoko that you just turned on the television or switch on the stereo or such. ApriPoko will remember the details. Next time you want to turn on the television or stereo, simply ask ApriPoko to do it for you. It will then transmits the appropriate IR signal directly to the device.

No doubt that this is the early stages of the robots master plan. ApriPoko sit on your living room gathering some intel on humans behavior. It is not to long before they start to equip this with real starwars like lasers replacing the harmless infra-red rays. With its superior aiming skills as it aim and operates electronic applications with its infra-red, this is not a machine to be taken lightly.

via Pink Tentacle