Humans and Robots
During my Robot design class in AAU, Peach (one my my schoolmates) bought her Aibo to say “hi'“ to us
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I love robots…or at least, I love the idea of having them!
And I have been getting mixed reactions from all my friends after coming out as a robot fanatic, especially personal robots. Some agree with me, and some of them differ because “robots are taking away jobs” and some are totally meh about it. They would basically “go with the flow” until the flow is seriously abrupt. I may not classify as a nerd, but I am just an extremely curious woman who’s excited about the future. I still look forward to a “bright tomorrow” even after watching Netflix series like Alter Carbon, Mars , Osmosis and so on. But Black Mirror, specially has caught my eye. It’s so close to reality and has got me thinking about why has advance technology portrayed with so much negativity and how it will doom the humanity.
But I have questions… so many of them!
Why is a negative picture on technology portrayed, where smart homes house only lonely people? Why does a broken family rely on their happy memories through smart lenses? Why do kids find it more difficult to socialize if they don’t have the smart backpack or a cool gadget that changes colors like a chameleon?
It’s maybe because technology has been continuously disrupting our lives. Even though we haven’t turned into cyborgs, we’re not really far from it. Humans, unlike the robots or AI are unpredictable.
Besides being materialistic, humans are vulnerable, wired in a way that everything in the surrounding is prioritized by basic attributes like love, hate, security and a sense of belonging. And currently, tech giants are working on integrating these attributes in the robots.
We have evolved around phones so much that in the year 2020, a person without phone would be considered a psychopath or someone to have reached the ultimate state of ‘mindfuck’.
But the point is, we humans have subconsciously become multi-modal (term learned from “designing across senses”) where tech has made it possible for humans to seamlessly interact with a machine.
And that’s how robots are being made to integrate with daily life. Robots will come in all shapes and sizes. But the question remains of how far they’ll go to satisfy our deep and integral need of connection. Will they successfully disrupt that?