Sunday 13 October 2024

Robots, Androids and Cyborgs



Isaac Asimov's 'Three Laws of Robotics' has long been held up as the golden rules that would stop robots overthrowing you humans and keeping some of you in cages for their amusement.
Asimov's three laws all depend on a human defining what a human is so far too easy to get around so better you meatbags don't rely on them but the world of artificial intelligence and robotics is moving so fast that it isn't only robots that you should be wary of, but also androids and cyborgs which many people see as the same thing but boy would you be embarrassed if a cyborg came back from the future to eliminate you and you called it a robot.
A Robot is a very advanced machine run by Artificial Intelligence which is designed and programmed to perform a task such as in factories or and can been human like in appearance while an Android is a more advanced human like robot which is designed to mimic human behaviour such as walking and talking and sometimes appearance.
A Cyborg, short for Cybernetic Organism, consists of both synthetic hardware and organic material which interacts directly with the brain so they have free will to do their own activities and  are not necessarily human, they could be animals that have non-organic attachments.
All very useless if you are being pursued by a heavily armed part organic, part synthetic life-form but no need to make them even more angry by getting their classification wrong.

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