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This article came out last month: http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/09/17/emotional-attachment-to-robots-could-affect-outcome-on-battlefield/ http://www.wash

This article came out last month: http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/09/17/emotional-attachment-to-robots-could-affect-outcome-on-battlefield/ http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/09/17/emotional-attachme... I wonder how this will affect robot operators when their "avatar" comes under threat..?

forgottenpaswrd 13y ago
Not really true. Believing you develop an affective relationship with a machine in nuts. With animals is different. I know those guys in Spain: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEDAX http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEDAX They mainly deactivate bombs from the Spanish Civil war and from terrorist organizations like ETA. Of course you are seriously affected when your robot is destroyed. Those things are really expensive. You will have to spend a significant effort replacing it, and it takes some work to make a machine operative so of course you are pissed off like anybody will be is their car paint is scratched by a key.
- forgottenpaswrd 13y ago
  PS: Your job is also threaten if you are so incompetent to destroy too much public property.