“Do you like it?”. “And I would never get tired of looking at her,” replies Alberto Sordi in Caterina and I. “And take it too, I kicked my wife a kick and all the waitresses and I live well.” Today such a dialogue would be branded as sexist. But also in The Big Bang Theory At one point the protagonists will cow on an old notebook on which young scientists had pinned possible future projects. “So, robot girlfriend … robot prostitute …” Howard reads. “But what need do you have a robot prostitute if you have a robot girlfriend?” “What questions, with the girlfriend you don’t ask the same things you do with the prostitute robot!”.
However, outside the fiction, Ai and Robot Humanoids are not separate sectors, it was obvious that Ai’s big tech would have sought bodies. Google focuses on ATTONIK, Amazon on Agility Robotics, Elon Musk does everything alone, and Zuckerberg? Second Bloomberg Meta began to speak with several companies, such as Unithee Robotics and figures to the Inc.
Instead, in the European Concert project, led by the Italian Institute of Technology, a robot has been developed to help workers in construction sites: it can drill at high altitudes, raise too heavy loads for humans, apply insulating material on large surfaces. In this case, however, do not snack antimoderni outside: in industry the machines have always been used (the robots in the car industries have been there for years), and Luddism itself was born as protest for mechanical frames, which at the time seemed robot. Let’s take the Stial Steven robot: it is clearly shiny than an expert craftsman. Robotic arms that did it were already there, but Stial Steven is more precise. I believe that the bewilderment is born from the humanoid form.
In Tokyo, on the other hand, the merger between robot and ai did not take it well. Tayakui Todo has created a work that has become viral with two chained robot dogs and very threatening in an unspecified gallery trying to attack visitors but remain blocked by the chains. In any case, a debate broke out on Japanese social networks, who expressing fear towards the power of the Ai, who seeing the metaphor of a new era of power and exploitation. This news intrigued me, because I have always been convinced that the Japanese themselves are robots.
True, Japanese tourists have always photographed everything, once with cameras, now with smartphones, but in my opinion it has always been a trick to not make us discover that the integrated cameras had.