] 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."

It's good to have pessimists.