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While confessing to being a language lawyer: if an object gains all its immediate direction and energy from external sources how is it not a "puppet"? That is
by theophrastus 11y ago
While confessing to being a language lawyer: if an object gains all its immediate direction and energy from external sources how is it not a "puppet"? That is, isn't the expectation at least a tenuous amount of autonomy before it's termed a "robot"?
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoThat sounds right. A robot has to sense something in its environment, then control something based on that measurement. Its not a high bar: even your thermostat is a robot.
- chillingeffect 11y agoI think it's high time a formal taxonomy of robots gets introduced. There are humanoid robots, robots that simply do labor, autonomous, semi-autonomous, remote-controlled, etc. Your definition of sensing and control is new to me, personally, but valid of course. There are software robots, and then there are clickbaiters and charlatans making outrageous claims which lose their drama when an appropriate definition of robot is applied... We just need to straighten it all out, organize all of the things!
- kbenson 11y agoI think perhaps it's a matter of perspective. If you view the external source (magnets, etc) as part of the robot, then it's just a robot with two (or more) discrete parts. Is the robotic arm that gets it's power and direction from one or more cables connected to external systems not a robot? The difference here is that the control and power are more exotic than we are used to seeing.