Wednesday, June 17, 2009

R0botz



I just finished watching a video about different types of robots. Some of the different kind of robots are humanoids and androids. Humanoids are robots that have any human like form such as legs and arms. Androids on the other hand are robots that look and act exactly like humans. The more robots look like humans, the more people like them but to a certain extent. A japanese robotist named Masahiro Mori came up with a scientific explaination for this. He called it the uncanny valley. The uncanny valley is when it looks too much like a human and people get repulsed by it. Over the years robots have changed and grown alot. I feel like one thing that they will never poses is true feelings. They might have the ability to create facial expressions but inside they don't have a heart. I don't think that they could ever love or have real feelings. They calculate everything and don't do what their hearts say because it's all what the logical choice is to them. I think that this is something that humans will always have that robots can't copy

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