Friday, November 23, 2007

Telegraphed Punches



From Telegraph.com.uk
"Scientist programs robot to hit humans"
"Isaac Asimov will undoubtedly be turning in his grave. Asimov’s first law of robotics says a robot may not injure human beings

German engineer Sami Haddadin has built a robot that he regularly allows to punch him in the head. The invention blatantly contradicts Asimov’s first law of robotics – that a robot may not injure or harm human beings. Mr Haddadin, of the German Aerospace Centre Space Agency, has programmed the robot so that it knows when it has hit a person as a way to reduce industrial accidents..."

Read the full article @ its source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/11/07/scirob107.xml

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