What people think about humanoid robots

by | May 21, 2020 | Highlight of the Week

Robots introduced themselves to survey-takers with a greeting that indicated a gender or left it out. Most people accepted genders from the former and usually assigned gender to robots that did not indicate a gender. Image credit: Georgia Tech / Ayanna Howard lab

While neurotechnological companies are celebrating the benefits of humanoid robots for science, industry and the health care system, most people do not have any idea how intelligent and advanced the robots are by today. Sentient, self teaching humanoid robots are designed to surpass humans in depth and intelligence within a couple of years from now. The below article shows how far humanoid robots have been developed until now and how little the general public is informed and ready to face the ethical and political discussion which is needed at this point.

https://www.technology.org/2020/05/20/people-think-robots-are-pretty-incompetent-and-not-funny-new-study-says/