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While not headline-worthy I'm not aware of which definition of "robot" CPR machines are supposed to fall. They're pretty well studied at this point. https://en.
by tastroder 5y ago
While not headline-worthy I'm not aware of which definition of "robot" CPR machines are supposed to fall. They're pretty well studied at this point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoPulse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoPulse
- neartheplain 5y agoAs a professor of robotics once told me, "If it doesn't work (yet), it's a robot. Once it works it's just called a machine." See also: dishwashing robot, bread-toasting robot, clothes-drying robot, etc.
- david-gpu 5y agoSame thing with AI: once machines can do it then it is no longer intelligence.
- rozab 5y agoA professor of robotics once told me that these things are not robots because they do work within an internal, controlled environment. A robot instead operates in or interacts with an external, uncontrolled environment. I don't think this thing would count as a robot in any sense unless there's some sophisticated sensory processing going on.