We now have robots that can get us drinks from the fridge.

http://robotgossip.blogspot.com/2006/01/blue-collar-robot-with-household.html

they dont need to travel at 88mph

KYLESUX

My funny comment would not be appropriate to say here, so I'm not going to say it, but it's prett damn funny.

The Futurists are the Future of Music-ists.

The future started when we could light up the room with the flip of a switch. Where have you been?

Seriously, though. That robot is cool. It seems like every day a new robot is coming out with some amazing new skill.

It will only be a matter of time until robots are made to... kill. <_< >_>

On the bright side for Japan, they'll have a monopoly on droid armies.

How much $$$$$????????

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I'm pretty sure I thought the same thing

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I think the Futureheads already beat you there buddy. :p

BRIDGE-BUILDING NINJA ROBOTS! RUN!

*cue Terminator theme*

Sounds nifty but proves that society is becoming more lazy.

Their videos were very unimpressive. Seems like this kind of technology is still a long way from usefulness.

Robots might be really useful in the military, but I don't want one, and I don't want them taking jobs. It's interesting, but I don't really care.

[QUOTE=Mr. Stafford]they dont need to travel at 88mph

KYLESUX[/QUOTE]

If you want some imported stuff they do.

Who needs a robot when you have women?

wait, does it give sexual favors?

...

Nevermind.

See but the robot could go get the beer for you, which would result in no interuption of the sexual favors provided by the woman.

And thus women and robots co-exist in a beautiful balance...

not to mention the robot wouldn't ***** at you to get your own beer.

I'm probably going to get flamed for this, but I don't mind robots taking physical labor jobs. Of course, there will always be some that humans have to do, detail oriented jobs such as cabinet making, plumbing, electrical work, small scale painting etc. But if robots can do more hazardous jobs, or large scale jobs (such as painting a bridge) then all the better. This would free more people from menial tasks and allow them to learn new things that robots can't do and hopefully advance society in some way.

Of course, there are some stipulations. The first being that if humans can work faster than robots at large scale jobs like bridge construction, then humans should be doing those jobs rather than robots. It took the robot in the video quite some time to install a panel, much longer than it would take a person. Of course, on the other side of that argument the robot doesn't need rest, so they can work until something breaks.

The second issue is that the people who currently perform the jobs that robots may be taking over may not be suited for jobs involving research or invention. Of course this would indicate that some transitoinal program is needed to train the laborers to perform something else at no cost to them.

I'm all for robots taking over repetitive or large scale jobs, so long as a place can be found for the workers that they replace. I don't want anybody unable to make a living simply because he isn't able to keep up with a robot.

I smell Judgement Day. >.> <.<


But maybe not. Was this robot built around Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics? The first one would prevent Judgement Day, no?

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Two and Three sum up to these:

2. A robot must obey an order given from a human, unless it conflicts with the First Law.

3. A robot must protect itself from harm, unless that protection conflicts with the First and/or Second Law.

Stick to those. Isaac was a smart guy.

Ah, but what about when robots become self aware enough to bypass the laws and create their own Zeroth Law of Robotics? What then?

(If you don't know what I'm talking about, read Robots and Empire)

If robots ever develop genuine free will, then mankind will have succeded at playing God.

Theproblem is his book sare about robots getting around those while stilll obeying them. I think, I read them when I was little and don't remember. But thats what I thought, I thought it was like a moral book, almost a fable.

Wow, you guys are right.

"Hunny, put up."
"No! I've got to do the dishes!"
"That's why we got SlutBot, babe. So you can hump me and I get serviced while we hump. It's like my own personal pitcrew at Courtney Speedway."

Actually the book is more about how the humans screw up. The robots never hurt anyone and do their job.
What you said sounds more like the movie, which is at the moment being played at Asimov's graveyard to research if his rotation in the grave can be used as a cheap energy source.

But that sort of thing happens so many times. Refrigerators took anyway jobs for people who carry ice to homes. Telephone technology took away jobs for telephone switchboard operators. etc. It's simply "structural unemployment."

It can bring me a drink, but can it make me a sandwich?

[QUOTE=Chaz Ghostle]It can bring me a drink, but can it make me a sandwich?[/QUOTE]

Until that day, women will still be allowed out of the bedroom.