#robot vs human

[theregretofgod]

I LOVE MEDIA THAT INVOLVES A ROBOT BREAKING ITS CODE AND FEELING EMOTION! ! !

IT ALWAYS BRINGS ME SO MUCH JOY ! ! !

YES MY DEAR ROBOTS GO CRAZY WITH FEELINGS! ! !

[yippee-optimistically]

mods r asleep post humanized 4x

finished catching up on tpot it was peakkkkkk but i am so scared of one. also working on little clay and felt dolls of 4 x and 2

[cirilee]

more of this new artificial idiocy story dear sweet alvin belongs to @neoncl0ckwork ❤😭

[koumori-1999]

christmas shopping

[tumatawa]

Well since my other image is radioactive heres progress on a rival character for Nina I finally got started on instead. Everybody say hello to Little miss Uefi. Initially built to explore emotion regulation but was repurposed into a fighter robot a few years after the project was abandoned 👎 She likes to play and draw

[aaaaiuio]

Ukrainian independence day drawing part two

I was supposed to make this before the independence day but I didn't have time so I am posting this now.

I just drew all my favorite characters holding the Ukrainian flag

[bunnieswithknives]

Drew my and my friend's Lancer characters. One of these is a human and the other's an ai, guess which is which :3

[godisasimp]

What I understood of the 1st planet mission

[mixelation]

i uh. think most people when they hear clone think more, scifi magic exact copy of you as you are an adult with your memories, mirror image type shit, or else like superhero intentionally designed as a replacement of you clones, rather than real life clones which is way more normal.

those people should still spend some time thinking about mewtwo

[bugtransport]

thinking about cable management and routine maintenance in cyborg boys. here's what we got this morning

shigeru loves the aesthetic. he's married to it. i think he'd be the most into making sure that his insides looked all sleek and nice and organized. he takes pride in his borg body. personally i'm torn between him color coordinating his wires to match his whole rose theme (he could use green wires like the plants are growing out of him...) or the fact that the stronger suit is kind of the default color of most wires (so he could probably just use what was put in him originally) but he'd absolutely make sure that his insides looked as clean as possible.

kazuya would have to have his insides really organized kind of by necessity. it wouldn't be an aesthetic thing for him i don't think but considering he's gotta use that repair machine (since he has no boys to fix him) and that needs to be able to target a specific part of his mechanics completely autonomously to be able to repair it, things have to be tied up tight in there so that they don't shift when he's moving around. also, super-1 is canonically beautiful, and they REALLY like showing off his borg blueprints so i think they tried to make him look nice and clean in there.

kazami was NOT clean at all when they made him (look, they were racing against time in there) but yuki absolutely went in and reworked him afterwards. having a scientist boyfriend has some perks! i think it would be a matter of pride for yuki but also i think a way for him to redeem his destron time a little bit. he can use his skills that he got there to make kazami even better.

speaking of yuki his arm was fixed up by a bunch of scientists that liked him and cared about him. i think that they did their best to make the connection as easy and as natural as possible. there probably was some nerve damage from the acid and everything and i have my own headcanons about his range of feeling in the arm and how everything works there but i think they would have done their best to save as much as they could and make it comfortable for him.

hongo is the messiest out of all of them on the inside because he wouldn't want to open himself up and do routine maintenance i don't think. he's fine with all the human things like brushing his teeth and showering but having to open himself up and blow the dust off of his parts and worrying about how all the wires in him are connected is something that he doesn't want to do and doesn't trust a lot of other people to do. hayato and taki can clean him up but if he's on his own for a while away from the two of them he just won't and he'll get all dirty inside and hayato will have to open him up and wipe his parts off when they see each other again. i think he's prone to overheating because of this <3

amazon is made of meat :)

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

i haven't forgotten abt that poll i made at the start of summer, i've just been thinking how to properly introduce things

[shadowthedragoncat]

“The barber”: A partially destroyed pal max robot that wants to become a barber.

Terry: A homeless teen that wishes to become a music artist.

Backstory under the cut because long

Backstory: Terry is your average rebellious teen, tired of being in and out of foster homes he ran away in the hopes to find his biological family. He survived being captured by hiding out in a large abandoned shed, the robots couldn't find him due to the lack of info about him.

The next morning after the robots were defeated Terry was awoken by a sound inside the shed he was hiding in, he goes to investigate cautiously and finds a partially damaged pal max robot. The robot seemed to be in an amnesia-like state, unable to recall their orders to capture humans (likely due to the defeating of pal and destruction of the other robots).

Terry attempts to destroy the robot with a metal spike, but can't due to guilt as the robot doesn't attempt to fight back. The robot reveals that after awakening they found themself damaged and surrounded by deactivated robots, upon finding them a group of humans chased them off, due to still not being fond of robots after the previous attempted robot take over. The robot then hid in the same shed Terry was hiding in.

The two end up forming a sort of friendship, both being sort of outcasts from society. They make the shed their home. After bringing back some discarded magazines for entertainment, the robot discovers one, likely found from a hair salon, about hair and hair styles and decides it wants to cut hair. Terry begrudgingly lets them try out on him, after helping attach a pair of scissors to their missing hand, since he hadn't had a haircut in a long while. The robot was surprisingly good at it, leading Terry to name him the barber, he also attaches a sticky note to their face to act as an expression.

[defaruto]

UTAU will always first and foremost be my #1 engine but MY GOD I love synthv…

[isekyaaa]

when you say you like robot characters, what's the range? like, do you like 100% robot characters or humans that replace parts to become humans (cyborg) or humans that transfer their consciousness into a robot or...? 👀👀 -- @milkstore

(tbh idk the whole range of robot characters. it feels like the possibilities are endless. if this is an ask too difficult to answer feel free to just ignore it lol)

When I say “robot characters,” I mean 100% robots. Cyborgs or robots that have some kind of human component like a transferred consciousness is a no for me. There’s just something fascinating about a being that, by all normal means, should not have the capacity for love somehow learn to love and love deeply? Thats soooo good.

I always always love the concept of love. Love is like a drip of water. In the moment, it does nothing, but over time, it can carve canyons. This concept is one thing that I adore seeing utilized in robot stories. Like the love of a creator or the love of a child and it just… creating color and warmth within a web of ones and zeroes.

I think it’s even more interesting for cases like Svarog. He is very cold and logical. He will only do things if they follow the laws of his logic. These rules are so strong that he won’t hesitate turn down Clara’s requests, even when faced with her tears. And yet… and yet… there still is love. He still readily and willingly protects this little girl. Svarog isn’t a human wearing a metal exterior. He is still a undeniably a robot. And yet he still loves.

[vaugarde]

me: oh i gotta finish my novella and work more on my pmd fic and world and also work on that wc rewrite loose outline and oh i wanna get back to my sonic one eventually

also me: omg what if i made an anthro pokemon world based on the main series but the main gym leaders and protags are all replaced by their pokemon (not to be confused with pmd, this is just the main series but the humans are gone)

[sirensoftheweb]

Do Robots Deserve Rights?

By: Hydra 🐍

I want to start this post by firmly stating: I AM NOT SCARED OF ROBOTS!! Except maybe that AI Robot named Sophia… I am just simply unsettled. Maybe it is because I enjoy immersing myself into a good science fiction book, movie, or video game? For example, my favourite solo player video game is Detroit Become Human. The game follows three different androids, all in which have different jobs but act as a type of servant for an owner. Throughout the game you are faced with prejudice, which ultimately leads you to have to choose between breaking the programming and becoming a deviant (gaining a consciousness of one’s own), or continuing to live as a slave to an other.

If roboticist Alan Winfield is correct with his statement: “Real robotics is a science born out of fiction,” (2011, 32) how are we to assume that robots gaining consciousness will not be a relevant topic in the near future? I mean we have a A LOT of fictional media existing around the idea of such topic (M3gan, Black Mirror, I Am Mother). In my opinion, scientist should be more focused on creating the flying cars from Back to the Future instead of frenzying over the next trendy artificial intelligence. Imagine never having to worry about sitting in rush hour traffic EVER AGAIN.

I realize the whole idea that “robots will take over the world one day” may seem comical to some, but If you really think about it, this notion is already in motion (hehehe that one made me feel like a white dad). The man of the moment himself, David J. Gunkel says, “Despite what is imaginatively foretold in fiction, the robot invasion is not coming from the future. The robots are already here. Like the “barbarians” that were said to have invaded Rome, we have already invited the robots into our places of work, into our homes, and into our lives. They are already all around us, even if we often do not see or identify them as such” (Gunkel 7).

I will assume you are human if you are reading this, and therefore I will also assume you have been inside a grocery store (considering you must consume food to survive). Well this being said, have you noticed the progression of self checkouts becoming more and more frequent? It’s so simple to go in and scan all your items, letting the machine do the brunt of the work for you. Or maybe you are a little more bougie and have experienced the cat robots of sushi places that act as a substitute for servers… IS THIS NOT AN EXAMPLE OF ROBOTS ALREADY BEING HERE AND RELEVANTLY USED?? That was a rhetorical question because OF COURSE IT IS. Even in the comfort of our own home we rely on robotic devices like Amazon’s ‘Alexa’ or Apple’s ‘Siri’ to turn on/off lights, answer questions, set alarms, etc.

So how did we get here? If we think about famous french philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s essay “Postscript on the Societies of Control,” Deleuze argues, “This technological evolution must be, even more profoundly, a mutation of capitalism […]” (Deleuze 4). This would make sense given the examples above, because these robotic machines tend to replace human jobs and duties. Robots don’t require a paycheck like people do. Therefore, the capitalist win once again. Human Kind: 0, Capitalism: 1,000,000,000.

Since it is evident we are living in a time that depends heavily on robots and technology for everyday use, I would like to bring up another question raised in Gunkel’s book: “Can and should robots have rights?” This question really perplexed me. At first, my obvious answer was ‘no.’ Robots are already taking away jobs from people who actually need to make money in order to survive. How can a machine need rights equal to those of humans? They do not have consciousness and souls (as far as I know)! That question’s ridiculous right? But then I think back to my favourite video game and how gut wrenching it felt having to play as an android with no rights or freedom of speech. I feel a little more tempted to say yes to Gunkel’s question after that, but I just don’t have it in me to place technology over living, breathing, flesh.

Should we be more empathetic and moralistic towards technological beings such as robots? Or is it more important to value our own human rights, especially considering that is a questionable topic in it’s own?