If you ever work on a modern industrial system then you'll see all kinds of rules, safety measures and more fun
It often makes small jobs extremely tedious, but I always remind myself it's because the robot arm I'm looking at is strong enough to throw me across the room or crush my bones.
Movies underestimate how a robot could kill a human with a single punch.
Terminator didn't need firearms, it could just single punch everyone to death. Kind of crazy string chimps are but bigger, stronger and made of metal.
For me it's the acceleration and speed they don't comprehend.even "safe" collaborative robots can accelerate to huge speeds in the blink of an eye, and being electric they'll do it at maximum force
I've driven one into my head before and its remarkable how soft it was thanks to the tech involved but movies miss the fact that if it wanted, even a small arm could have gone through me
Part of it is probably wrong extrapolation from experience. Even if I try to punch someone as hard as I can, there's a comparatively low limit of damage I can do. Sure, in the wrong spot I could kill someone or seriously hurt them - but my body severely limits what I can do so I don't hurt myself.
Robots don't have these natural limits. They can be programmed in, but code can always fail. A robot doesn't care if it will hurt itself by accelerating too quick or by continuously exerting high amounts of force. It's as mindless as a rock crushing somebody, and much more agile.
A rock with goals
Oh yeah, I didn't thing of that. Electric motors tend to have near-instant max torque.
Terminator would sucker punch Sarah Connor so fast she would be dead before she knew what that big Austria guy at the door wanted.
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There is a steel mill (recycling plant) in my town. They give tours every Friday. I have been 3 times, twice with teams of (software) engineers.
If you want to go see what engineering means when lives are on the line, tour a steel mill. Fucking amazing.
You know what I mean! Never seen that exact kind of plant but yeah, automated heavy industry gets intense real fast
Red hot rebar headed downstream at 40mph - holy shit!
Half of those rules are written in blood
Clearly this means war
I'm going to guess that humans have killed far more robots. So the robots have some catch up to do.
This REALLY depends on the definition of robot.
If you call a robot any mechanism that is designed to work then even the most simple pulley system is - by definition - a robot.
In which case. It's probably more then 6000 years ago.
Never forget
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Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics would have prevented this.
First Law:
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Second Law:
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Third Law:
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
How would that prevent a malfunction from accidentally killing someone?
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