Yumm. I love the non audio-anamatronic robot girls.
Am I the only one who is more than a little freaked out by this?
Well, its official. I am a nerd.
Not nerd as in terribly bookishly smart, nor able to solve complex problems.
Nerd as in socially deficient.
Why do I say this? I have seen every Star Trek episode in The Orginal Series. or ST:TOS for my bretheren.
I really like the old show. It was spacetastic!
But now that means that I haven’t just watched One series of Star Trek episodes, I have watched every Star Trek episode ever aired.
Star Trek
Star Trek Next Generation
Star Trek Deep Space 9
Star Trek Voyager
Star Trek Enterprise
Oh and the movies too.
Man, that is a lot of hours watching the Trek.
igargoyle must have seen the same article that I did, or at least something similar.
Perhaps you have heard that there now exists a biped walking robot named Kiyomori who is donned in samurai attire.
igargoyle brings up two salient points. One is if there was a true android who was a samurai that they might have to commit Seppuku or hara-kiri as the Gaijin call it. Of course the robot would have to terminate themselves rather than harm a human in referance to the Three Laws of Robotics set down by Master Asimov.
Also they speculate what the code of the warrior looks like in C++. Of course its humor but it does raise some intersting ethical questions. Can an ethical or moral code be constructed programmatically? Sounds a bit of a Clockwork Orange to me. That is to say if a robot does not have free will, they cannot be moral nor ethical they are not any more than the sum of their programming.
That being said. I find it rather impressive that the robot can walk under its own power. It sort of tries to clap but it can’t actually make its hands touch.
Like many generals have fantasized about in times past, I think that robots would make a superior army. The problem would be keeping these samurai loyal to humans and from becomming ronin-bots. That’s going to be the last thing that we need. ...because they’re made of metal, and robots are strong.
There’s something very important I forgot to tell you.
What?
Don’t cross the streams.
Why?
It would be bad.
I’m fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, “bad?”
Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Total protonic reversal.
Right. That’s bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
Another collage. I have been enjoying the collages lately.
I love robots as I always say. There is an ad for the roomba or whatever it is and at the end of the commercial every person days “I love robots”.
More people should work “I love robots.” into their advertisements and daily conversation.
The robots were taking the palce of Shazam and his family and friends. The problem was they weren’t so very well designed. Remember if you are replacing people with robots, make them at least as structurally as sound as the original. That way their arms won’t fall off.
