In a new IMAX film that seems especially fit for Pittsburgh — two robots are from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute — viewers can learn about humanoid robots and the scientific advances behind them.
Thursday, September 03, 2015
IMAX film 'Robots' shows how special humans are
In a new IMAX film that seems especially fit for Pittsburgh — two robots are from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute — viewers can learn about humanoid robots and the scientific advances behind them.
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Having gone to school in the heart of Robot City Pennsylvania for the last two years, I can say that it really is amazing how far we have come and what we are making pieces of technology do, sometimes small tasks and sometimes large ones. However I do think the movie industry has done a kind of disservice to real progress in the robotics industry. Any movie with a realistically animated robot that moves even somewhat like a human, is really glossing over the huge fact that we just don’t have the technology to make robots move like that, and that the world that movie was set in might as well be in an alternate universe where the dark age never happened. The kinematics to make rigid components articulate like that just aren’t feasible with motors or magnets, we have to develop tech comparable to ligaments and muscles before we can have robots like the public expects.
I think that robots are just the coolest. Though I would say that it’s a double-edged sword. I know we are nowhere close to having machines take over the world this article makes it clear that robots can replace humans. I think in the case of CHIMP he is meant to prevent humans from going into situations that are far too dangerous for us non-machines, but when I look at the little butler character I see something that is meant to directly replace a human. This of course makes me think that all our science fiction nightmares are not too far into the future. I’m glad that the research in to this field has lead us to appreciate how complicated humans are because there are certainly jobs that require the entirety of our humanity. Will it ever be possible for a robot to create art? I don’t think so. Art requires an understanding of the human experience and I think that will prove impossible to implant in a machine.
After being exposed to the movie Ex Machina, I have become I bit more apprehensive to human developing robots to be more human like. The article definitely appeases me because it points out that there still is a lot more to go before a conscious is fully developed but regardless it still is very scary. Like the movie points out and what this article was getting at is that humans wanting to create robots that have all of the same complexities is just a part of evolution. It is truly fascinating at the same time because as we are pushing these technological developments we are at the same time examining within ourselves on what it means to be human. What I liked that the movie pointed out that this article did not is that as much as we keep pushing and the technology everyday keeps becoming dated is that we may never truly reach being able to make a consciousness with coding because there are so many things we still don’t know about the human body let alone the brain. So yes human are very special and it is part of our evolution to create something special, I don’t feel like man will ever be able to create something more special then human because we keep evolving too.
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