Robotics

It is truly fascinating to see how far science had come in order to produce robots. We looked at several videos of different robots, and seeing that they can jump more than two floors, or that they can reach 30 miles per hour, it is very impressive. It is interesting to observe that most of them are built in order to look alike humans or animals. This makes me consider if someday we won’t have a robot as an animal at home, or live with robots that look very similar to us, so they can do our basic tasks. The way we depend on technology nowadays, can transfer to robots, because they can be very capable. Another very interesting questions while watching the videos was if they get sad or offended when one of the guys started hitting them with a stick. The answer would be no, because feeling are not yet developed in robots.

            The next video we watched was a Honda robot, that was impressive in a way that he could move almost as good as a human. It has been developed for a long time and it has clearly gotten better and it’s interesting to see how he react to outside movements.

            The more human like robots were developed already, and have human faces and movements as well. Male and female characters and voices that are used in a trial in a hospital to see how people feel about them, and eventually in the future they can be used to talk to elders, or to help kids with mental or physical conditions.

            And even more impressive one, called Sophia, that is able to learn along the time, and show facial expressions, and even respond and have a normal conversation. When she talks, it looks like she does have feelings and goals in “life” because she said she wants to go to school and have a family, but she can’t yet.

            The first robots I talked about were very impressive, and I personally never looked into it, but apparently they are not even the best of robots. Humans have already created very efficient robots that can replace a lot of the human workers, because they have all the capabilities to move, execute, and respond just like us. I do believe that robots are going to replace many of the workers around the world, and that we are going to accept them as normal and even necessary thing in our lives.