In the future, would robots be made so that they look, act, think exactly like humans? If so, would they still be non-living then?
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pretty sure the robot uprising isn’t happening any time soon.”
That’s what one of Blake Hannaford’s grad students told him recently after encountering some challenges in the lab. A robotics professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, Hannaford knew exactly what he meant.
“I’m never going to rule stuff out,” Hannaford, whose work focuses primarily on robotic surgery, said of potential advances. “But if you look back on science fiction from the ’50s and ’60s and compare it to today, it really missed the mark.”
In fact, you could argue, pop culture in general has ruined robots. Or at least most people’s concept of what robots actually are. According to movies and television, they’re bickering Star Wars chums R2-D2 and C3PO. They’re Star Trek’s superhuman Data and Futurama’s boozy Bender. And, of course, they’re Arnold Schwarzeneggar’s murderous-turned-virtuous cyborg in the Terminator flicks. That dude’s the biggest robo-cliché of all. Or maybe it’s RoboCop. Tough call.