Robot in Society: Friend or Appliance? Massachusetts Institute of Technology Arti_cial Intelligence Laboratory 545 Technology Square‚ Room 938 Cambridge‚ MA 02139 USA email: cynthia@ai.mit.edu Abstract This paper discusses the role that synthetic emotions could play in building autonomous robots which engage people in human-style social exchange. We present a control architecture which integrates synthetic emotions and highlight how they influence the internal dynamics of the robot ’s
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Iggy The Robot Analysis and Reaction Essay Iggy the Robot pissed me off. With its vacant little eyes and perfect posture it represented something I have avoided my entire professional career‚ structure without useful feedback or improvement that amplifies inefficiencies but does nothing to correct them. Through my role as a runner I was unable to ask questions to the lookers who were communicating the design of Iggy. I could ask for more specifics on color‚ size‚ shape etc. but could only run
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Sensors for Robots An overview Václav Hlaváč Czech Technical University in Prague Faculty of Electrical Engineering Department of Cybernetics Czech Republic http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~hlavac Courtesy to several authors of presentations on the web. Lecture outline 2 Note: students graduated from the bachelor KyR studied sensors in the course Sensors and Measurement. This subject was not specialized to robotics. Motivation‚ why robots need sensors? Robotic sensor
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Geneva and discussed a ban on Lethal Autonomous Weapon (LAWS) or “Killer Robots”. Although these machines do not yet exist‚ some believe that their development is imminent and steps should be taken to ban them now. Should “Killer Robots” be banned ? Killer robots have really become a concern for people nowadays. What is a killer robot? What will happen if they really exist? What will happen to humanity? “A killer robot is a fully autonomous weapon that can select and engage targets without
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2. My robot It was the first time Art2 had said something like that. It was always me who had asked to have a word with him. I must admit‚ I wasn’t quite happy about the situation. We sat down on the couch‚ and he looked me in the eyes again. Then he started talking. He talked for a long time about how he felt he needed something new and exciting in his life of a robot. He wanted to try something new. He said that he had bigger ambitions than helping me. Art2 had watched a lot of TV lately and especially
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FUTURE WIHT ROBOTS 50 years ago‚ it could not be possible to think in a future with innovative cell phones‚ internet‚ amazing TV set‚ and some others modern electronic devices that nowadays we can see everywhere. Robots are one of the most interesting inventions of the past century‚ according to Wikipedia‚ the first robot put to industrial work was called UNIMATE and it was invented in 1954. Since then‚ many robots have been invented in order to help people at hardworking work.
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Robots and Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is arguably the most exciting field in robotics. It’s certainly the most controversial: Everybody agrees that a robot can work in an …………………...........‚ but there’s no consensus on whether a robot can ever be intelligent. Like the term "robot" itself‚ artificial intelligence is hard to define. Ultimate AI would be a recreation of the human thought process - a man-made machine with our intellectual abilities. This would include the ability
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fiction movies have depicted robots as very sophisticated machines built by humans to perform complex operations‚ to work with humans in safe critical missions‚ in hostile environments‚ or more often to pilot and control spaceships in galactic travels. At the same time‚ however‚ intelligent robots have also been depicted as dangerous machines‚ capable of working against man through wicked plans. In the Terminator the view of the future is even more catastrophic: robots will become intelligent and
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Isaac Asimov’s The Robots of Dawn is an enjoyable read‚ showing many aspects of Asimov’s style and themes. It follows the format of a standard detective novel‚ but with many of Asimov’s characteristic science fiction elements such as interstellar travel‚ flying cars‚ and robots. Two major elements of Asimov’s style are very noticeable in this book: simplicity and dialogue. Despite the technology introduced and the length of the story‚ it was never confusing‚ nor would a reader ever be lost. Asimov’s
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......................1 Ethics in Robotics: Gianmarco Veruggio‚ Fiorella Operto: Roboethics: a Bottom-up Interdisciplinary Discourse in the Field of Applied Ethics in Robotics .......................2 Peter M. Asaro: What Should We Want From a Robot Ethic? ...............................................................................................9 Alistair S. Duff: Neo-Rawlsian Co-ordinates: Notes on A Theory of Justice for the Information Age ...................................... 17 John
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