Week 3 | Robotics + Art | Blog Assignment
Ever since the British Industrial Revolution, society has been very caught up with making everything about efficiency. Countries want to spend minimal amount of money for workers and use minimal resources, and this causes Industrialization to occur. The newest phenomenon is building robotics that can carry out everyday tasks to make our lives easier. Researchers, however, are building more and more sophisticated robots each year, and are starting to build robots that are capable of experiencing the feeling of pain.
I took a look at the San Francisco Robotics Society of America website, and was baffled to see just how sophisticated some of these robots are. For example, NASA recently invented the “microbot”, a microscopic robot that is capable of traveling across terrains on different planets and collect data about the terrain. Another robot is called Robodex, and the purpose of Robodex is to provide people with "love" and "dream" through robots and to realize a society where humans and robots cohabit with each other".
I gained a lot of new insight while reading this week’s material because I had no clue to exactly how fast our society is evolving right in front of our own eyes. I also gained a new appreciation for how complex some of these robotics are becoming, and we will only rely on electronics more and more as time goes by.
Due to the rapid development of the transistors, the chips and circuits that people are able to be built nowadays become more and more sophisticated. Therefore, as it mentioned in the article, humans are capable to create more and more advanced robots to serve different purpose. However, the new advanced technology, such as artificial intelligence for the robots, can raise some new ethical issues to people which need to be aware of.
ReplyDeleteThe examples you made strongly prove that robots have played an important role in today's society. They are wildly used in scientific filed and people's daily for service but also cause some issues. Some people argue that robots with artificial intelligence will finally put human beings in danger while others say it will not. It's difficult to tell who makes the right point. It seems that there is still too much unknow in robotic field.
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