This is crazy. Robots are now being used in Qatar to, get this... race camels! You heard it right. Camel owners are now using these smart jockies to race their camels to the finish line. This serves as a human rights improvement as well as technology in sports. The article points out that before, owners used children as their jockies, even as young as four years old! Sometimes serious injuries would result! The article points out that the market for these robots will soon be growing as more and more Arab countries begin to adopt this technology. This is great news for the makers of these machies! Here is the complete article.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/07/0715_050715_robot_jockey.html
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That is crazy that they are using robots to jockey camels now, and great for human rights. I wonder how many companies are going to get in to this market. I think that companies will try to make these robots smaller and smaller, in order to gain a competitive advantage.
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