amit nigam
May 5 2006, 07:40 PM
Though right now only industrial robots are used except a very nominal percentage of population who have robotic pets etc. , it will take just about 20 or so odd years before they will become part of our daily lives. The one thing that comes to the mind as soon as hearing the word robot is that , how safe will they be. Thanx to the sci-fi flicks of hollywood most of us have created a negative image about robots. I m a very great fan of science and i dont like it when people speak in negative sense about science. But in this field i have a different opinion. As i m also doing computer engineering therefore i know that how often bugs in small codes can make them function in a dangerous manner. Therefore to make the enormous coding required in making an intelligent robot foolproof is i think next to impossible. Also the other thing that can be dangerous to humans is the greed of humans themselves. In these competing world, it will not take much time before a company in its race to become the best, crosses the danger line, whether unknowingly or knowingly. This seems like a topic which does not need any attention right now but i think this topic needs to be discussed right now before the companies and the stakes related to this become so high that the governments of the world will not be able to handle.
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Don't get lost in recent Hollywood science fiction. I'm sure whatever robot we create will be thoroughly tested so that if there is something wrong we can fix it. I can almost gaurantee that we will not create robots with a "soul" like in the movie IRobot... which I may add was a horrible movie.
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agentblade
May 6 2006, 04:15 AM
Though the benefits of robots are numerous.. and it seems unlikely that robots will take over the world like in iRobot.. it doesn't mean that the dangers of over-reliance on robots is not there.. Robots, like any human made stuff has the tendency to break down and malfunction.. If we over-rely on them, if they do break down it might pose a danger to us or cripple us in a way too.. If you think its not possible think about the computer. We're so reliant on a computer that the moment is breaks down we have no way of doing our work. It's like some part of us died, cannot check email, cannot go online, etc.. Also people are trying to humanize robots, so they can act as teachers or maids.. That's dangerous, the reason why humans are the best teachers is because we have soul and moral standards.. Teaching and looking after the young is about building relationships, robots cannot build real relationships even if they can its so weird and unnatural.. imaging a child falling in love with a tin-can..
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Blue Lightning
May 6 2006, 05:53 AM
Well when robots gain the benifit of artifial intellegence I think that we would easily be able to rid ourselves of aggressive robots. But the chance of robots ever trying to kill is is super unlikely since were not that supid. Well hopefully.
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FLaKes
May 6 2006, 07:16 AM
If they would ever be created to harm humans, it would be just like the nukes. By that time inteligence would be so superior that it would almost be impossible to do something illegal without being noticed. I bet the whole world would go to war with someone threatening with these types of weapons, and if there are some national defense or police robots or something, if they get infected with a virus or something making them act a different way, the creators would have obviously see this coming and they should already have something worked out.
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Artem ZHI
May 6 2006, 07:35 AM
I think, that robots may be very dangerous, if it have agressive programm. The peoples dangerous, signifies dangerously and that they do. Each new day robots become more complex, but I do not think that this can be as person
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rvalkass
May 6 2006, 07:54 AM
Simple robots like the robot dogs and things like that are very unlikely to do humans any harm, but no doubt that at some point a robot will end up being incredibly dangerous to people, whether that be unintentionally or intentionally. For example, there have been programs on TV that show robotic guns and military hardware. It would only be a matter of time before some of that hardware fell into the wrong hands and we could have a major Worldwide problem. Developing "intelligent" robots could also have bad side effects, especially if they learn as they go along. Intelligence can be a very dangerous thing and I'm sure that you would get people who would manage to either program their robots or make them learn bad things, but I don't think there would be any sort of uprising like the one in I, Robot.
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Your wrost nightmare
May 6 2006, 08:50 AM
Well in the future if the robots to join the army they could turn against us and try to kill us so there would be a big war. But there is other types of robots lik vachime cleaner and maid ones which couldn't turn against us.
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Sprnknwn
May 6 2006, 02:25 PM
Humans are aggresive to humans, so when it comes to robot programmed by humans, of course they could be dangerous for humans. We kill each other so in the future robots will surely be used to kill. Sounds scary and apocaliptic but logical. In fact probably the main use for robots will be wars. It would be ok if there were robot wars... and no humans dying but poor countries won´t be able to afford those kind of mechanical troops and there will be lots of blood within metal and circuits. 
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spy_charly
May 6 2006, 04:27 PM
Yep i think the same as amit_nigam, robots are just machines and they are like things, but lately companies want to own most of the human activities with many devices....each time much more intelligent. Altought i think it will be reasonable impossible to make a robot think as a human in the next 5 years, they will for sure ask questions such as why they were created exactly for? and such as a human they won't like doing the hardest works.... I personally don't think i will enjoy working for a robot and honestly i preffer they remain as they are now, just as simple pets.
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I don't believe the robots themselves will be a threat to us, but instead I think they will somehow start off a chain of events that would lead to catastrophic events.
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Liam_CF
Nov 5 2007, 10:57 PM
The government would probably make any robots undergo extensive safety checks before letting them be used by the population. I'm not at-all scared of them malfunctioning and killing us all. It's all just media-hype. 
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AskAndrewD
Nov 5 2007, 09:42 PM
Uhhh, no way man! That's like impossible! First off - let me state something that sounds philosophical: You CANNOT make something that is BETTER than yourself. It's true, and you can't prove me wrong. Yes, it is possible to make C++ in C++, but when you talk about human life - no way! Secondly, you guys watch way too many movies. Thirdly, a robot is something without a brain - just a machine that moves that we can control (Unless it's one of those stupid random moving machines, but we CAN still control them!) This was a pretty good topic, but you need to think it over more if you want to post it.
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amit nigam
Mar 19 2007, 06:42 PM
hi friends, as most of you have said, i also agree with you that robots can be dangerous only if we do not handle them well, otherwise they will only be helpful...as i was taking in one of my other posts, the dangerous way of handling them can be like if we bring in a lot of red tapism in matters related to robots...for example if we give some type of rights to robots then if a robot malfunctions or is found to be dangerous to humans in any other way, still then you would not be allowed to dismantle them, since they will have rights therefore they can go to some court and get a stay order or a decision in their way...so the point is that how we handle them rather than that how they or their programming behaves... keep writing... bye..
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sniperkiller
Mar 18 2007, 07:15 PM
robots can be our future, as long as we construct them on the good way like some movies, giving them a couple of laws that they may not cross but they can also become our end, a malfunctioning in their programs or a wrong circuit can make up all the differences everything is possible with robots, but in our current state of technology building, i wouldn't think yet about our end ^^ it will take surely more then a couple of years for the engineers to make robots in human shapes the robots from now are still human commanded, and do nothing more then they were commanded to like car constructioning or some other stuff and if it would be in the future that the war battles are not anymore fought out by humans but by robots at least i hope that the engineers got some robot-arms proof armor ready in case the robots go on a killing spree one slight error in their programmation might be the end of human civilisation, enough movies to tell about it ^^ but why would we think of our own end?? if we can prevend it?? just be sure if you grow to be a robo engineer, that you know what you are doing build in safety thingys like immediate shutdown codes, self destruct *BLEEP* or other goodies extended testing of the new technologies will be the only prevention that we have while constructing robo and other stuff
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