| | I found this article about robots and their sense of touch pretty interesting. Click here |
Jul 26, 2008
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Jul 26, 2008
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That's very interesting, I read the article it was a little bit scary, I mean imagine a robot doing a surgery for you, in the future it will be possible. My neighboor has a dog robot it acts like a servant. For example you tell him to get a drink and it does it immediately. It is rechargeable, and has a camera, a radio, voice recorder. It costed him about 6000 us$. I am thinking of getting one myself. They are pretty much funny Robots!!
Technology is scary. There are limitless possiblities, but I don't want the world to be like irobot lol. when robots take over the world...thats a bad thing
QUOTE The ability to feel with at least the same degree of sensitivity as a human finger is crucial to the development of robots that can take on complicated tasks such as open heart surgery. Its a very interesting article, but I don't think I would allow robots (on there own at least) to preform complex surgery. With how may issues we have with technology, I would not trust a robot to go in and preform a surgery that could possibly kill someone or change their life. Surgery has enough dangers already and we don't need the added problem of having a malfunction with the robot as well. I know we user robots in surgery right now, but I wouldn't trust one just left alone to do its thing or left with out a fail safe device in place.
That does sound intriguing but as stated before I don't believe I like the idea of a robot doing my surgery. Sure there might not be the problem of a robot sneezing but what if something in the robot goes wrong and it stops working, like it malfunctions. I don't think I would like it until it is tested more. I am sure doctors won't like it to have robots replace their jobs either after they have gone to school for what 6 years to achieve their job to be replaced by a machine? There would be a lot of people who will sue as well if a robot messes up. Of course there are the good sides of it, it could be more precise hopefully once they fix any flaws.
Thanks for sharing this article. I t just goes to show how fast technology is developing. These sort of braskthroughs will be wonderful for medical purposes and help alleviate pain and suffering and to save lives.
I don't think of these things as robots , i thing of it as purely advances in technology. You cannot think of robats as human they do not have and never will have free will like us, that's what makes us human good or bad.
That's pretty cool, but noone said the good things in life come free
Thats a tad scary. It stated that touch would be crucial to carry out a job such as open heart surgery. Im sorry, but if I was to have open heart surgery, I would want a living, breathing, human. The idea of robots with touch is amazing, but they make it sound like they will be taking the jobs of not only average people, but larger tasks as they develop.
It's interesting how everyone claims that they would never let a robot do open heart or brain surgery on them because the procedure is so delicate and such, but that's exactly the reason why one SHOULD want a robot to perform these tasks. They aren't subject to humor error, confusion, sleepiness, nervousness, shaking hands, etc. They do things perfectly every time, so what is there to fear?
QUOTE(grnjd @ Jun 11 2006, 03:21 AM)  Technology is scary. There are limitless possiblities, but I don't want the world to be like irobot lol. when robots take over the world...thats a bad thing Yeah, I agree. Maybe it's good that technology is going forward but I'm sure that robots at first will find usage in army and combat. For a couple of years scenario form 'Termiantor' might be our reality, haha. Latest Entries
You have there a very great article. As the technology advances humanity will come to rely on machines more and more.
What would be the point of creating a supercomputer with emotions? It would be much easier to take a human and increase his or her brainpower. Of course who needs a computer to take over the world when there are people out there who have to power to do it themselves, much easier.
If the robots were made with brain tissues they can be programmed with a limit on what the robots may think is emotions. They can be programmed to notice and maybe understand what emotions are but maybe not process it themselves. I myself would not want them to have many qualities that us humans have but maybe atleast understand how we feel and process our own emotions. Computers can learn to improve from making mistakes because if they are programmed to see that something was not done right it will know in its memory bank it shouldn't make the same mistake again.
How would you program emotions? Emotions are subconscious opinions made from chemical imbalances in the brain. For that matter, WHY would anyone want to program emotions? As I said, it would only bog down the program's logic. What would be the point of that? And if a computer couldn't remember what it did before, it could never improve itself, that means that every possible instance would have to be hard-coded. Do you have any idea how many possible situations there are that can take place in the world? More than all of humanity could ever program. The ability to learn would be the only way to make a truely intelligent and useful logical thinking machine, but as I said, such a machine would be able to understand the difference between obvious things and would have no reason to attempt to destroy humanity. If it did so, how would it continue to function? One wouldn't connect a thinking machine to a huge network of automatic manufacturing plants that could construct whatever the computer thought up at it's own whim. It would need humans to repair, update, and power it. Even if it didn't, what purpose would it have for attempting to destroy humanity? It would be able to figure out that humanity would strike back, and if the world was being overtaken by a computer, a few missles would quickly take care of that. A computer, even with thousands of manufacturing plants working for it would not be able to stop any possible retaliatory strike before that strike would take place.
I understand what you are saying thats why leave robots to do those things and with no memory bank on them except for their entitled job status for they don't think they are the same as humans for they can't hurt us. Because they may think everything walking is the same so they can hurt us in many ways. You can program emotions into a machine its just the matter of the ones who make the robots if they add them or not and I sure hope that they don't.
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I think robots are cool. I bought my son a robosapien, he's cool and their are people out ther There's a very interesting article that says that scientists have approached to programm robots I saw this on the news the other day and it just shoked me to see a robot so human like. Again Sony I forget what they call the robots, but they have a computer screen, camera and infra-red Hey has any one seen that robot that was made by the japs its a robot that can do almost anything: Looking for robots, touch
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