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Tag: empathy
Funeral robot can neither express or feel respect
Pepper the robot can perform funerary rites, but it shouldn’t.
It’s meant to help bring down the costs of funerary services in Japan, where (as elsewhere) they can run into the tens of thousands of dollars. But this is just a bad, dumb idea.
It’s a bad idea to introduce autonomy, or any machine really, into a situation that fundamentally calls for respect and sympathy, because machines have neither.
Drunk robot…. or so it seems
(thx @masaladani)
Could you kill a robot?
We have some indication that we can measure people’s empathy using robots, which is pretty interesting.
The less experienced you are, the less freedom the robot gives you
If you look like a robot, we are going to pretend you are… and hug you
Nurses don’t explicitly tell the patients Paro is a robot
“People are able to connect with this robot. It’s designed to behave in a way and interact with the person so that you want to touch it, you want to pet it, you want to interact with it. They have the same reaction that they do to any other cute animal or cute baby.”
Robotic seals comfort dementia patients but raise ethical concerns
Give robots ‘personhood’ status, EU committee argues
Give robots ‘personhood’ status, EU committee argues
The proposed legal status for robots would be analogous to corporate personhood
Let’s just give robots the rights to experience the same sociopathic behavior we gave to the corporations who build them.
/via Julian Oliver
Electromyography robotic hand
A robotic hand controlled by sensing the muscular contractions
in the arm of the user replicates the movements.