In one video, for example, a man appears to beat up a woman, strangle her with a string and attempt to suffocate her with a plastic bag. In another, a person does the same things to the robot dinosaur. Affectionate treatment of the robot and the human led to similar patterns of neural activity in regions in the brain’s limbic system, where emotions are processed, fMRI scans showed.
Break a leg!
Danielle was a TALON, a remotely operated robot used for reconnaissance in combat, as well as in tough-to-reach terrain like rocky canyons and caves. […] “Our junior guy named it Danielle so he’d have a woman to cuddle with at night.” Sadly, the romance was not to last: “Danielle got blown up,” Connor says.
As Military Robots Increase, So Does the Complexity of Their Relationship With Soldiers
I can’t define a robot, but I know one when I see one.
Joseph Engelberger