Robot to Replace Professional Bloggers

NEC's PaPeRo is Programmed to Listen and Blog!

Okay, we all know the Robot scenario: we get sick of doing manual labor, so we build a robot to do it. That robot is programmed to do all sorts of mindless jobs, but we, with our superior creator intellect will do all the operations like writing. Well, not quite. You see, someone actually working on a robot that blogs.

NEC Corporation has developed a prototype called the PaPeRo. I'm not certain if its name is supposed to be some abbreviation of something, but this robot designed to create multimedia blogs. As you can tell by the picture, the PaPeRo looks like a cute anime critter that apparently you are supposed to be comfortable having a chat with.

That's right. You interface with the PaPeRo via conversation, and you tell it about your day, just like you would write in your blog. The PaPeRo then processes your conversation by searching for keywords. It surfs the net for you, and finds you the appropriate video and audio images that you would use for a blog entry.

For example, let's say I sit in front of the PaPeRo and do my blog. "Today, I went to work, and heard the song 'Living On A Prayer' by Bon Jovi. I couldn't get it out of my head. I then did my accounting work for Nike, Inc. and then watched the newest Tom Cruise movie on Blu-ray." From what I understand, it sounds like the PaPeRo would analyze my monologue and create a blog entry with my conversation in text.

We already have machines programmed to do that, but apparently the PaPeRo would take it to the next level. I imagine that my aforementioned blog entry would then automatically contain hyperlinks to Bon Jovi, Nike, Tom Cruise, and so on. I imagine that it would do it with keyword searches, but this can't be very accurate. After all, how many times have you entered a word or series of words into a search engine, and it gave out everything that you weren't looking for?