Let’s see… a robot that responds to the thoughts of its master (is “master” the right word here?). Pretty sure that we (humans) will bring about our own downfall, either by blowing each other up, or by inventing a robot that says, “You guys are idiots, so I’m going to kill you.”
This particular robot comes to us by way of the University of Electro-Communications in (where else?) Tokyo. It was actually designed to help its designer (creator?) compete on Robo-One, some sort of robot battle tournament in Japan. Looks to be a lot like that old show Battlebots, just with more “roboty” looking robots, and not something that looks like a toaster with a pike attached to the front.
Of course, you can extrapolate the concept—robots that obey mere thoughts—to things like surgery and other, useful medical applications.
I don’t know about you guys – but I think I’ll always want a physical barrier between thought and action! The idea of performing surgery with a device that responds to thought scares the shit out of me! Just knowing that my thoughts were controlling something would make it impossible not to think up horrible things just because I’m not supposed to! . . . And with no buffer between thought and action. . . DOOM!
I think that if we were performing surgery via thought, there would be a “thought confirmation” technique to stop such things. EG if you– the doctor– thought of slicing the throat of a fat man getting lipo, the robot would need a final command before it is actually done.
Wow, dude no way, that is one way cool robot!
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What’s your hand controlled by?
Im more afraid of self replicating resource consuming nanomachines