How Do Interactive Robots Shape The Lives Of Children And Adults?

As the years progress, there have been many advancments in technology . Technology has made it easier for humans to be able to communicate, discover, translate, and develop the unimaginable. As of right now, sociable robots are made to fulfill the needs of human companionship for many who lack human intimacy. In “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other” Sherry Turkle describes the many ways interactive robots shape the lives of children and adults because of the human need to nurture. Regardless of the circumstance, humans have a thirst for attention, in order to quench that thirst, one will need to feel needed or adored. That is where interactive robots come into play, they give a human being a
For adults, sociable robots are used for therapeutic reasons. Most adults want to be listened without no one passing judgment, an electronic device will ask question with no purpose but to ask it, ultimately causing the adult to bare all that is in his/her mind. ELIZA- a program with psychotherapist dialogue, has no recognition of what “a mother might be or any way to represent the feeling of anger “(Turkle 458). However, this did not stop people from expressing their feelings and developing a relationship with the robot because “they spoke as if someone were listening but knew they were their own audience. They became caught up in the exercise” (Turkle 584). They became caught up with what was real and fake because someone or something with finally listening to what was always in their heads. People will talk to ELIZA to make the experience realistic, deceiving themselves from the knowledge that the machine is a fake and thus not
These robots show a fact that many do not want to despatcher, how lonely people truly are. A lot of the benefits people can get from sociable robots are the same benefits one gets with a real-life person. However, one does not want to try because of a human being need of controlling the situation. It is gotten to the point where people will put these sociable robots before them “people will “hold the Furby upside down for thirty seconds or so, but when it starts crying and saying its scared, most people feel guilty and turn it over” (Turkle 475). They neglect the fact that the Furby its just a machine, they will feel guilty in causing misdeed to the machine compared to a barbie because the machine will show signs of mistreatment. It says a lot when a human being will feel guilt for an inanimate object, the same guilt one feels from mistreating another person. People are no longer seeing these machines as objects, but are viewing them in the same scale as other human