Re: Top 3 reasons why people dont like robots
- From: Sly <Sly@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:46:40 -0500
ilya2@xxxxxxx wrote:
So I think Isaac Asimov was onto something when he describedWell ... in his Robots timeline, most of the ones on Earth ended _up_ non-
unthinking fear of androform robots ("Frankenstein Complex") in "Caves
of Steel". What he did not anticipate is that most real-life robots
will NOT be androform.
androform simply because the public wouldn't accept androform ones.
I think your memory fails you a bit. All robots in "Caves of Steel"
and its sequels are "androform" in the sense of having two arms, two
legs and a head, including those on Earth. Most robots on Spacer
worlds are somewhat more humanlike than on Earth.
That actually cames quite late in Asimov's universe. It took a while before humanity conquered space in his world.
At first we were staying on the Earth and in some space stations around. The first robots attempts were humanoid, or at least androform (R-Andrew being an exception, as he altered himself to change his body in a set of human prothesis, becoming in the end the human named Andrew, in The Bicentennial Man).
Second act: due to reluctance of customers, androform robots were banned on Earth. Some industrial android robots were still in use in several stations and on some planets of the Solar System. In one novel taking place on Mercury, human were to seat on the robots, like 2-legged horses, to use them ; because of customers afraid of robots making dangerous moves.
Only later, when the Spacians conquered other planets, did android robots become widely used. Still not on Earth.
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