Re:ACLU to police using robots: Tell us more
by CompanionCuuube on Monday December 02, 2019 @02:03PM
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I wouldn't call washing machines/dryers/dishwashers "home cleaning gimmicks".
Re:ACLU to police using robots: Tell us more
by tsimionescu on Monday December 02, 2019 @02:47PM
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I was thinking more about automated vacuum cleaners.
You can take a very broad view of the term 'robot', where it is more or less equivalent with 'machine', and then you world be right - they are literally everywhere.
But given the reaction to this article, I think that it's clear most people have a more narrow definition of 'robot', one which draws a line between a machine which splashes water and detergent inside itself for a pre-determined amount of time on one hand, and semi-autonomous walking machines on the other hand.
As far as I know, robots are used in manufacturing, surgery, home cleaning gimmicks, and war.
Use of robots in war is already problematic, and seems to have greatly emboldened some countries to carry out campaigns of terror and assassination on other countries' territories. We really don't want the police to start on the same path.