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Re:I am a roboticist in a cheese factory by andrew3726 on Sunday January 21, 2018 @11:00AM (#16198508)
Why would human versatility define the upper limit?
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Re:I am a roboticist in a cheese factory by pryelluw on Sunday January 21, 2018 @02:46PM (#16199597)
Great question. I think it stems from the origin of robotics itself. The desire to build a machine that is "alive" and get it to obey at all our commands. Sometimes I think that robots are slaves 2.0, and as such, they will have human traits.
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