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GUEST EDITORIAL

Katina Michael

Diana Bowman Meg Leta Jones Ramona Pringle

Robots and SocioEthical Implications

rom lifelike androids
to virtual assistants,
industrial machines
to drones, today's
robot creations, in-
cluding those in automation, are
used to perform any number of spe-
cific tasks. These undertakings are
repetitive in nature and suggest that
we are still a long way from manufac-
turing "all-purpose" utility robots.
History teaches us much about
technological innovation and the
perils of over-promising. We are, for
example, still a far cry away from the
headlines of the first computers that
promised so much but delivered
only computational trajectories for
the military. In fact, seventy years
later, we will see headlines similar
to this one from 1946 describing the
power of the Electronic Numerical
Integrator and Computer: "It Won't
Mind the Baby - Yet; But Little Else
Stops 'ENIAC' " [1].
It is difficult not to be mesmer-
ized by robotic instrumentation
demonstrating beyond-human-like
capabilities, including superior pow-
ers to lift, carry, and run in all-ter-
rain landscapes.
But while the likes of Boston
Dynamics' creations fill us with
awe, these physically impressive
machines still lack common sense,
basic communication skills, and
emotional intelligence [2]. Is it
unreasonable for us to want more
from the AI-inspired - something

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Berlin (March 1930). Original caption (translated into English): The first artificial
machine man in Berlin! "Robot", the first artificial machine man, was invented by his
inventor, the English engineer, Captain W.H. Richards presented for the first time to
the public in the conservatory in Berlin. The artificial machine man "Robot" can speak,
turn his head, hold objects and bow. He is made entirely of steel. "Robot," the artificial
machine man "has breakfast" in the streets of Berlin with his inventor, the English
engineer Captain W.H. Richards.
more than, for example, a robot that
can get up off the ground, and recov-
er from being hit with a club?
Robots encapsulated and em -
bodied in tin metal, and adorned
with sensors, silicon, batteries, and

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actuators are, however, just one
form of robotics. Against this back-
drop we are starting to see the rise
of software-based robots, or "bots" for
short. These types of bots have been
beating humans at chess since 1997

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