Thread: Tell me everything you know about ROBOTS!!!

Precisely what I find threatening.

But I also know that robots are terrible at being vacuums. HOWEVER: there is a neat lawn-mowing robot where, once you place a perimeter line around the lawn, it adheres it and mows the lawn for you. I'm not sure how one defines "robot" but it's similar to a roomba.

The threatening part isn't the robots it's the idiots using them. That's like being threatened by computers.

I found the fact that the ads delivered on this page were about a sale on robot vaccuums quite unnerving due to the conversation.

Your words are being recorded and used to market to you all the time.

Now, go let the robots tuck you into bed.

Originally Posted by ThePreserver

Precisely what I find threatening.

But I also know that robots are terrible at being vacuums. HOWEVER: there is a neat lawn-mowing robot where, once you place a perimeter line around the lawn, it adheres it and mows the lawn for you. I'm not sure how one defines "robot" but it's similar to a roomba.

Yeah, see, Roombas are a good idea of robots (assuming all humans being killed is a bad thing, which is debatable). They are described by the creator as insect-like.
That is, they are not intelligent, like the competing Trilobite brand which scans your house's layout and cleans in a spiral pattern toward the centre.
Roombas just scruffle around aimlessly until they hit something, and then move in another direction.
It's actually better at cleaning than the Trilobite too.

Originally Posted by ThePreserver

They can't replace us, but they can kill us.

The only way to avoid robots killing us is to become robots. I' m not sure you could define us and us anymore, and one could argue that is in fact how they kill us.
But assuming we just mean our thought processes etc.
We will slowly become more and more electronic, and less biological. Some people we resist and, and then die.

Robots? Japan loves robots. But why? The short version is because Japan has been using robots for centuries as entertainers and as their aids. One of the first robots in Japan built was to help serve tea. Also, with Japan's rising elderly population, Japan's government is relying on robots to help care for the elderly.

Anyone seen Japan's HRP-4C Miim? They recently improved its walking so it looks a heck of a lot more fluid than it used to. It doesn't waddle around anymore. The earlier version, HRP-4C, was temporarily used as a model in Japan. A fashion model.

Centuries??

^ The first robots were built centuries ago, this was, afaik, the first design.
Leonardo's robot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Actually, reading wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot#History
Click "show" on Timeline of robot and automata development

I read that previously too but somehow forgot.

I have yet to see anything that suggests robots are or have ever been more than:

a mechanized puppet

If people ever do build something on the Terminator scale, or Skynet (the ultimate self-aware computer)...we deserve to be wiped out.

<<<bows down to our silicon masters