David Hanson has two little Zenos to care for these days. There's his 18-month-old son Zeno, who prattles and smiles as he bounds through his father's cramped office. Then there's the robotic Zeno. It can't speak or walk yet, but has blinking eyes that can track people and a face that captivates with a range of expressions. At 17 inches tall and 6 pounds, the artificial Zeno is the culmination of five years of work by Hanson and a small group of engineers, designers and programmers at his company, Hanson Robotics.
They believe there's an emerging business in the design and sale of lifelike robotic companions, or social robots. And they'll be showing off the robot boy to students in grades 3-12 at the Wired NextFest technology conference Thursday in Los Angeles. Unlike clearly artificial robotic toys, Hanson says he envisions Zeno as an interactive learning companion, a synthetic pal who can engage in conversation and convey human emotion through a face made of a skin-like, patented..
2007-09-13 11:55:23 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There will definitely be those who will marry them. If you want something that has no free will and will do anything you want, then it would be good. Personally, I do not see this world lasting long enough for stuff like that to happen. Would I marry one, I dunno. I'll cross that bridge if the situation would ever arise.
2007-09-13 13:25:41 · answer #1 · answered by Scott 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-16 19:24:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
WHY? Are people bored? That's just one step forward for good people to do useless but amusing things with robots and another step forward for people to take robot technology and destroy the world with it.
2007-09-13 12:04:46 · answer #3 · answered by Aloofly Goofy 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think you're a robot. You seem to have no original thought; you only reproduce what others have programmed into your mind.
To answer your question, I would marry a robot. Human-to-human love has shown not to be good to me at all, and I refuse to fall in romantic love with animals, lol
2007-09-13 12:01:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
No marrying a robotic partner..outrageous.
They should be used as laborers,patrolling and such other tasks,and that should be the end of it.
Otherwise the world will have to be a slave to them and machines will rule us.
2007-09-13 20:40:55 · answer #5 · answered by bakhan 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well I wouldn't "marry" a robot, but I would buy one in the place of a wife... as long as I could have sex with it.
Of course, women already do that, it's called a vibrator. They don't get the benefit of the companion side of it though.
2007-09-13 12:00:52 · answer #6 · answered by Really???!!!! 6 · 7⤊ 2⤋
yeah , im married to my computer right now , and i think i love her , but i need an upgrade.So a good looking robot would be fine , it could quote me shakespear while it cooks flapjacks, i think thats cool?
2007-09-13 13:02:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course not. The robot would just be for the sex.
2007-09-13 12:01:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
no thats like a man marrying a sex doll or a woman marrying a dildo
2007-09-13 12:04:32 · answer #9 · answered by xapao 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No Way! I would never see my boyfriend again.
2007-09-14 05:57:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋