Robots

The term robot means robota which is from a Czech word meaning hard labour. Robots
are useful things because they can make life much easier by doing our work for us.

The question which is on everyone lips is that can robots be like humans. Robots will be
able to converse with humans. They will not have the same topics to discuss as people do;
nor the same world view or opinions, but they'll be able to interact, exchange
information, and even "converse". As for thinking on their own, robots already do that
now. Any autonomous system thinks on its own. It's just that currently our systems don't
yet think about do very complicated things, but that is not the same as not thinking at
all.1.

Many people have the view that if artificial intelligence takes over then, robots can take
over. The question is not that whether they can do that or nit, but it is that can the robots
be like humans. Humans have the sense of pain, love, guilt, jealousy and many other
emotions and feelings.

People have the notion that in star wars and terminator, the robots are made in humans.
To some extend, it is true as robots can help in the housework, offices and factories. In
the year 2000, Sony came up with a robot pet dog. It is the first true cyber pet. It is called
AIBO. It can do tricks such as falling over and getting back up again, in response to
visual cues from a human operator. Another company came up with a robot cat. It
responds to a human touching it. It can recognise a hit, a touch and a stroke. This is
entertainment for people and is useful for people who don't want a real cat or dog in the
house. The experiments to show robots can excel human are never ending.
Humans are born with built in instincts; these are drives that cause our behaviour. The
notion I want to represent here is that can robots ever have feelings like love, hate,
remorse. We are made by God like that and he has given us these unique emotions to live
life. God has created a very unique and detailed system in our body to feel our
surroundings.We have sensory organs for the processing and distributing of the

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information nervous system emerged. With the passage of time, the flow of information
became too complicated, so the central processing systems developed. Can robots attain
such detailed and perfect manner in their making?

The point I want to make is that we create robots, whatever we will program in them,
they will react like that. I am not denying the existence of intelligent robots but can they
ever have the feelings of humans. I believe that it is not going to be possible. How can
we program them to have feelings like love etc?

1.“Some Elementary Lessons in Psycho-Analysis,” in The Complete Psychological

Works of Sigmund Freud, tr. And ed. James Strachey (London: The Hogarth Press, 1966–
74) (henceforth Standard Edition), 23: 283. The Strachey edition uses ‘psychical’, which
I’ve replaced by ‘mental’; cf. the parallel passage quoted in the next paragraph, from
“The Unconscious,” which uses ‘mental’.
David M. Rosenthal.