Now we're teaching robots how to use knives?

[pokerfan]

:shrug:

See also Biped robot acheive 4.4 mph (further down the page).

This could end badly.



http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/medical-robots/050610-robots-with-knives-a-study-of-soft-tissue-injury-in-robotics

[customerserviceguy]

1. They've got robots that do prostate surgery

Not sure I'd want one of them near my 'junk'.

[qazplm]

2. Knives don't kill people

Robots with knives kill people.

[pokerfan]

3. Let's say that there's a Moore's Law for robots

and they double the speed of that biped every 18 months. In just a few years we could have the awesomeness of knife wielding bipedal robots chasing us down in the streets.

[frylock]

4. what could possibly go wrong?

[eShirl]

5. As long as that's all they bring to a gunfight, I don't see a problem.