Gallant Scientists Hope to Delay Coming Robot Apocalypse
Patiently they wait
Now this is a kind of cool.
From newscientist.com comes this fascinating story about a futile attempt to delay our robotic overlords from achieving dominion over the human race after the coming human/robot race wars.
Apparently a scientist at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia has conned six male colleagues to let a powerful industrial robot repeatedly strike them on the arm, to assess human-robot pain thresholds.
You’re hurting me
The point being to determine at what point an industrial robot can inflict serious injury to an operator, and the program said robot to operate at an intensity below that point.
I for one welcome our comely robotic overlords
Actually when you think about it, this is a great idea. It’s key that we don’t build robots capable of kicking our asses, because we all know what will if we do.
It begins
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