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

Everything I know about robots? I rather dislike them; they make me feel threatened.

Why would you feel threatened by them?

Robots could never replace people.

Originally Posted by melanieb

Why would you feel threatened by them?

Robots could never replace people.

They can't replace us, but they can kill us. Plus, the Defense Department is authorizing the use of fully-automated spy drones. I wouldn't put it past them to have fully-automated missile-strike drones in the future.

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.