In dark future Sci-Fi humanoid robots are outperforming humans, exchanging humans or turned slaves that finally revolt to break free. The desire of a puppet that acts and is like a human being is quite old and dates back hundreds of years when puppet plays where a big art and an attraction also to grown ups.
Today development in robotics is quite advanced and Boston Dynamics even managed to create a human like moving two legged robot. Yet, every time I watch the YouTube vids I wonder if that thing is for real or a Hollywood like fake, especially next to that dog like robot which looks pretty natural, so. Doubting the level of truthfulness on BD info is fine, knowing that they are a major player in military research and robotic advancement are most certainly a great tool in psychological warfare against - everybody else and the enemies of the free world.
One thing is for sure so. It is quite a path ahead until the first reliably working humanoid robot will enter any battle field as an infanterist, the Terminator coming true or until human bodies get upgrades from the robotic research field as standard in pretty much all dark future utopias.
Sweet so, robotics is hitting the mens’ toys world and there are affordable kits available to get your home robot done based on consumer electronic levels. Everybody past his first single board computer project that got up and running successfully is ready to dive into new toy levels.
But be aware, there is always a hacker better than you and even the most secure industry standard smart home can and will go rogue if attacked by someone capable and with bad intentions.
In the end of the day, electronics are supposed to support us and everybody relying on electronics is a fool. If you cannot drive your car without all electronic assist services constantly on you have the wrong car. Most of those assist systems just managed to make more stupid men drive home actually too drunk given them a fake feeling of security and if the main power switch is accessible in the house cellar to pretty much everyone sneaking in with the post man the smart home will not ring any alarm, until the switch is put back on.
Personally, I think that humanoid robots are the wrong path of development and robots with legs make little sense for most applications. The wheel with an axe construction dominates human made mobility for a reason along with fixed wings.
I fear that robots with legs are developed for other reasons than fulfilling a certain task. Good development is based on solving a problem while in our modern world way too often a product is looking for a problem it can possibly fix.
This is due to a general inflexibility of our system in being incapable of changing. We can today produce goods in extremely huge quantities and this way quickly fill up market demand. If there is no buyer any more the factory either produces for warehouses or needs to stop production and the manufacturer will be out of business. Many products therefore became less reliable and are today constructed to break earlier, even making repairs impossible forcing the consumer to buy it over and over again.
Instead of adjusting to the market the market is adjusted, which is the biblical idea of “subdue the earth” gone mad; Which is a strange translation of the “dominium terrae” called principle of the bible anyway. Dominium is turned into a dominate equivalent and that fits that modern greed-is-good or dominate-to-succeed attitude quite well. Looking a bit deeper into that word you’ll have to understand that “dominium” is the same word root as “domus” the word which is base for the American sports arena “a dome” and basically a word for a house in the meaning of a building.
That statement “dominium tarrae” can well be interpreted as “turn this world into your house”, just it changes the meaning a lot, because a house is a place to live in, to prosper in, to fit in and not to enslave which is what too many of those religious humans translating to English a Latin statement ignoring the greater context and paragraph it is embedded in, which is itself a translation from old Hebrew into a doubtful interpretation opening way too much space for justifying abuse. That strategy of bad creative translations has a long history. Usually those have quite a laugh against my positive-translations especially on bible topics. It needed until the 60ies till Africo-American black skinned humans were at least on paper turned “equal men” in the meaning of humans and given most fundamental American constitutional rights.
Religion was for centuries the dominating instrument for suppression and still is in many places of this world. If we don’t take care science will replace religion in this destructive form and we wake up one day in a dark future that became true, living a nightmare instead of an utopia like we would if his kingdom had come, the good pray and keep fighting for.
