Chapter 6

• Robots


  Combination of different attributes such as mobility, intelligent behavior, sense and manipulation of environment.
• Karel Capek


  Person who wrote "Rossum's Universal Robots" in 1920
• Robots


  Are "androids" and deemed to be "artificial people".
• "Mechanical Human" as depicted in Greek Mythology
• God of Fire and the Forge


  Built robots out of gold which were his "helpers" and life-size golden handmaidens who helped around the house.
• Pygmalion


  Carefully crafted a statue of Galatea that would come to life.
• Leonardo da Vinci


  Sketched plans for a humanoid robot back in 1495
• Humanoid Robot


  Designed in the form of an armored knight. It also possesses the ability to sit up, wave its arms, move its head, and open its mouth.
• Robin Marantz Henig


  Stated that robots are hunks of metal tethered to computers, which need their human designers to get them going and to smooth hiccups along the way.

  
• Rodney Brooks


  Explained that the question of whether human-level AI will be developed, but rather how and when.
• Aristotle's View


  An organism has both matter and form.
• Materialism


  Organisms are made simply of various types of matter.
• Psyche


  Word used to describe the form of a living organism.
• Isaac Asimov


  Published the "Three Laws of Robotics".
• Three Laws of Robotics


  1.) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

  2.) A robot must obey any orders given to it by human being, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law

  3.) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
• Raymond Kurzweil


  An American inventor who predicts that machines will be more intelligent than humans.