Robots will be able to feel

[Ori]

Take a look at this... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4154366.stm

It's quite a breakthrough, and for some reason also a bit disturbing .

 

[MagickIsFun]

wow....amazing...will they look like us someday? like in Chobits? I hope then that people will still talk to people as well as persocoms....

 

[michel]

Ah, but will they be able to make a decent cup of tea ?:sarcastic

 

[Druidus]

As long as robots are programmed to have appropriate and sensible morality codes; synonymous to what most humans (in the society the robots are in) have, it'll be fine.

I'm more worried about nanomachines than robots.

 

[Sunstone]

Ah, but will they be able to make a decent cup of tea ?:sarcastic

That is, after all, the crucial question, here.

 

[MagickIsFun]

if we program them to.

 

[ch'ang]

It seems that every day some scientist is adding to our soon to be robot overlords arsenal

 

[Ceridwen018]

Well, at least I'll be old or dead before they get smart and turn on us all.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

So will cops be quoting Will Smith? "I miss the good old days when people killed other people."
If robotic AI gets to advanced, I'm going to buy a Desert Eagle. That way if a robot even looks like its virally infected and hostile, I can shoot and know that tiny bits of its head will be scattered a few feet away from its body, and I can proceed on shooting until its processor chip is in pieces.

 

[The Black Whirlwind]

As long as robots are programmed to have appropriate and sensible morality codes; synonymous to what most humans (in the society the robots are in) have, it'll be fine.

there's always the possibility for them to break their social and personality inhibitors, thereby being able to do what they wish without any moral codes. This could be corrected by putting in a self-destruct sequence that triggers when this happens, but then again, the robots could probabaly delete this if they knew of it. If they ever became self-aware (or whatever term you like to use), it would be bad news. We should just have mindless robots. its much safer, me thinks.

 

[Original Freak]

Remember the days when conversations like this were sci-fi and all conspiracy theory?

 

[QTpi]

You can buy one now! Have you seen Roboraptor? It's a wireless remote-controlled raptor robot that stands 14 inches tall. Below is a link to National Geographic's site where they list information about it and have a QuickTime movie to view it in action. It has touch and sonic sensors. I might get one for my classroom!

http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=2630&itemType=PRODUCT

 

[MagickIsFun]

they really have those?!? wow!:woohoo: Kewl!

 

[Original Freak]

You can buy one now! Have you seen Roboraptor? It's a wireless remote-controlled raptor robot that stands 14 inches tall. Below is a link to National Geographic's site where they list information about it and have a QuickTime movie to view it in action. It has touch and sonic sensors. I might get one for my classroom!

http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=2630&itemType=PRODUCThttp://shop.nationalgeographic.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=2630&itemType=PRODUCThttp://shop.nationalgeographic.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=2630&itemType=PRODUCT

That's just so sweet on so many levels.

 

[Pah]

You can buy one now! Have you seen Roboraptor? It's a wireless remote-controlled raptor robot that stands 14 inches tall. Below is a link to National Geographic's site where they list information about it and have a QuickTime movie to view it in action. It has touch and sonic sensors. I might get one for my classroom!

http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=2630&itemType=PRODUCT

That's just so sweet on so many levels.

Then you know who get's it!!!!!!!

One day in class and it's all mine!!!

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Remember the days when conversations like this were sci-fi and all conspiracy theory?

I can remember when I was little and still in elemintary school, me and my friends would talk about and play with little toy robots, and pretend they could act like normal people. 13 years latter its starting to become reality. I wonder if scientist will ever make a transformer type robot?