Forget killer robots, these ones mop your floor

Hi, this is Pavel in Japan. First, the good news: robots are finally coming. The bad news: they won’t be the sexy humanoids imagined by anime creators.

That was the message from Eugene Izhikevich, founder and CEO of Brain Corp, who was in Tokyo last week to speak at SoftBank’s annual robot conference about one of his creations —an 881 pound autonomous floor cleaner. The machine, which looks like a cross between a Zamboni and a motorised wheel chair, was originally designed to be operated by a human. equipped with Brain’s software and an array of sensors typically found in a