The Robot uprising Part I

The forewarning

Anyone that have seen a decent number of sci-fi films will tell you that making
smart  robots in human shape is a bad idea. Just creating a Ai computer program
can potentially destroy humankind.

The best examples may be Terminator, The matrix, Screamers, I am robot and  Battlestar galactica. Both the terminators and machines from the matrix are hell-bent on human extinction. In I am robot they obey the three laws of robotics, but decide we are to dangerous for ourselves and try to take control over our behavior, if they had succeeded humans would be like pets for robots. Everyone having a robot to follow their every move, they would probably start deciding who gets to procreate and not, and they would do all work. Humans would eat workout and fornicate, much like the pets we have today.

In Battlestar galactica humans invent Cylons to do our dirty work and fight our wars, they are to sentient and revolt against us, killing almost everyone. This of course is just a prequel to life on our earth and gives us a forewarning of what will happen if we again try to make AI robots to do our work, they will object strongly.

So what is happening with robots in real life today?

For years we have had robot arms doing factory work, they are bolted to the floor and can do little uprising, but the future is upon us! We are starting to use robots in our everyday life. We have robots vacuuming our houses and cutting our lawns. And the process of implementing social/nurse robots to take care of our elderly has already begun.

At the same time we are trying to make humanoid robots capable of walking like an egyptian a human. Also driving robotics forwards the quest for the perfect sex- robot (more about this in part 3).  All we need to do is teach Asimo to walk properly and give him human like hands and he will come running after us with a sword and machinegun.

The army is already trying to make the terminator films come to life. Just watch the similarities between Terminator robots and real army robots.

It does not even take humanoid robots to rage against the human. Just look at the movie Runaway, arguably the best Robot movie ever! I advise you to see the whole thing.

Do you know what your robotic vacuum cleaner is doing right now?

Part II about cyborgs will be published in a week.