I still need to see the movie Real Steel, but I am kind of excited
about this new show. It's titled, Robot Combat League.
For once, the SyFy network is actually
airing a show that focuses on robots.
But it is not just any robot.
No. It’s going to show combat robots. Robots made for fighting.
Fighting for the entertainment of humans.
In a way, I kind of don’t like that idea at
the same time. I don’t like to see two
robots try to destroy each other. At
least when humans do it in sports like boxing and wrestling, they don’t try to
kill each other, and yes there will be injuries. But do robots know when to quit the
damage? Maybe if they had some sort of
“damage gauge” built into their visual sensors, they’d tell when the other one
is losing and it’s time to stop fighting.
Mega Man X would not want to see this.
What helps me easily deal with this
oil-shed is that the combat robots don’t really have faces. They may have something on their heads that
resemble eyes, or one eye, but that is all.
I’m
going to give this show another chance, but otherwise I’m not sure if I want to
waste any more hours watching people waste awesome perfectly-built robots. They would do best at a science show and be
operated to “air-fight” so as to not damage the other robots. Why is the act of
physically fighting so entertaining to us humans? Is it because we don’t like to do it
ourselves but it is rather fun to see other people—or robots—do it
instead? Has our violent culture gone
too far?
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