One of the video clips that is appealing to me is “The Touch Bionics i-Limb Hand” from Bionics: Robotics for
medicine. The positive thing about this robotic hand is that it can help people
who have lost their hand in an accident or people who are born without hand due
to birth defect. These people can be able to lead normal, high functioning lives and
make them capable of carrying out everyday activities such as eating, drinking,
changing clothes etc. Today the Robotic technology of this bionic hand has
advanced so much that a person could now be able to sense or feel everything
through their prosthetic device. I think it is quite amazing that people who
have lost their upper body limbs can revive their sense of touch and the
ability to do everyday things through a prosthetic device. I think this robotic
technology is very promising for people who have lost their limbs and are in
need to be able to live a normal functioning life. On
the other hand, a robotic technology that terrified me was from a movie clip
called The Matrix. The Robots in this movie created the matrix which was
virtual reality that humans thought was real but in reality the human population
was unconscious and placed inside pods so that the robots can use their bodies’
heat and electrical activity as an energy source.Virtual
bots like Agent Smith had empowered human beings and they were able to morph
into human bodies and had more power and strength than human beings in the
matrix. Seeing those human beings wired up and stored like that was really
terrifying and it makes me imagine if one day our robotic technology would be
so advanced that they might enslave human beings just like in the matrix. We
already have bionic hand that can make it possible to sense feeling through
touch and artificial intelligent robots like Asimo and Nao that are capable of
having a conversation, doing physical activities like sports and dance, being
programmed with knowledge. I
think in our contemporary world people are very acceptable of robots because we
use them in our everyday lives like computers and smartphones. Technology is
always welcomed in our society today and we are so relied and dependent on it,
we never consider the possibility of it harming us. In the future we would even
accept and welcome super intelligent robots because we might believe that
robots cannot empower us because they are merely devices and a non-living
technology, whose sole purpose is to serve humans.
