wp-plugin-hostgator domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114ol-scrapes domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23054881\/engineered-arts-robotic-humanoid-ai-ameca-artificial-intelligence<\/a> Will Jackson, CEO of robotics company Engineered Arts, says he isn\u2019t sure what\u2019s worse: the angry emails that accuse him of building machines that will one day overthrow humanity or the speculative ones enquiring if the sender can fuck the robots.<\/p>\n \u201cEverybody wants to see a humanoid robot,\u201d Jackson says. \u201cThey love to imagine all these things that are going to happen. Part of what we do is fulfilling that desire.\u201d (Though not, he is careful to stress, the sex-robot stuff.) <\/p>\n Footage of Engineered Arts\u2019 most recent creation, a gray-skinned bot named Ameca, went viral last December with clips showing an android<\/a> with an exposed metal torso and eerily realistic facial expressions interacting with researchers. (\u201cAndroid\u201d being the correct term for a human-shaped robot, from the ancient Greek andro for \u201cman\u201d and eides <\/em>for \u201cform.\u201d) <\/p>\n In one video, Ameca frowns as an off-screen employee reaches out to touch its nose before smoothly reaching up to stop his arm in a whir of electric motors. It\u2019s an uncanny moment that sets off alarm bells for the viewer: the shock is that a robot would want to establish this boundary between it<\/em> and us<\/em> \u2014 a desire that is, ironically, very human.<\/p>\n
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