Human Robot

February is a totally bizarre month for JAD students. We had class on Saturdays which meant we only had one day of holiday!!! It was so awful that most of the students seemed to be sleepy during class.

This entry isn't actually about our life as JAD students but more on humanized robots. Do you know what humanized robots are? These days, we can see many big companies compete to build the best humanized robots. Humanized robots are robots that can play a role in the daily lives of ordinary people. The robots are able to take up the human task such as cleaning the house and even communicating.

A few days ago, I saw an article on yahoo about a human-looking robot. The robot seems like a human but still has the robot look since it is made of plastic. The robot is called 'Rodney'. Rodney is able to play piano, display emotions like behaviour, and solve mathematical problems using it's 'brain'.

However, there are a few controversial issue regarding human-like robots. The Society is thinking whether he should be considered conscious. And if so, would this allow him to have rights as people do in society? Consciousness is defined as ability to be aware of the feelings you get when you experience something.

Robots are not considered as having consciousness since it only works on what it is set to do, not on what it felt like doing. There are even peoples saying that robots can replace the human race on earth. This is not acceptable since robots don't have feelings and they won't think the way humans do did. They only do things that they think is necessary. Unlike the way humans thinks, humans will consider about something according to their human sense.

Thus, humans will always be the lead earth not robots. :)

I am human, you are human, together we are humans.