The Carnegie Mellon computer science department uses a couple co-worker robots (CoBots) to act as guides and to deliver packages. They don’t have arms, though, so to use the elevator they need to ask a human for help. Maybe we could avoid a robopocalypse if more people designed robots this way. At the very least, we’d never have to worry about an android being as touchy-touchy as David 8.
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Robots equipped with tactile sensor able to identify materials through touch
“Big things have small beginnings.”
In Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity in Near, a computer avatar named Ramona becomes self-aware and learns about being human from Tony Robbins. I’m pretty sure that’s how David from Prometheus got to be so creepy weird.
TOUCH TOUCH TOUCH TOUCH by ~Res-Gestae
“I understand human emotions, although I do not feel them myself.”
(via stampedes)
David from Prometheus
Thank you, Ridley Scott, for once again showing us how evil an android can be.
