I am considering
writing for Robot Magazine. I am not a robot builder, or an engineer,
although I considered taking up a mechanical engineering major when I was too
late. But I like writing about
robot-related things, robot-related topics, including cybernetic body
parts. But I especially love A.I.-based
robots and want to read more about them.
One television
show, called Extant, features an
android boy named Ethan and he is what his creators call a “Humanich.” The
story is not about robots—or androids—but I love how robot ethics plays into
some parts of the story. There are
robotic machines in this show too, and recently we met a sweeper robot that is
badly damaged—a result of robot abuse—and Ethan the Humanich feels sorry for
him and wants to take him home.
It would be
interesting to observe the different between how John the creator/father treats
his “son” Ethan and how he treats the sweeper robot. Very different.
I have yet to read
more of the Robot Ethics essay
collection, but I’d like to write an essay of my own. I also want to connect the essay and the
articles to different robot stories I’ve encountered, either in reading or in
television, and especially, in the real world.
I recently started
watching an old Japanese anime on the Internet, called Brave Police J-Decker. The
animation is old but it is a show with a good story. Deckard is a big man-made robot who
transforms into a police car (yep… a transforming robot, but not the Hasbro
Transformers), and after befriending a boy, his A.I. systems developed a
consciousness and a personality. He is
able to laugh and smile and frown.
My
life changed so much since I started this blog in June 2010. Priorities have changed but, I still want to
keep this blog going. It is important
that I keep my fascination with robots, androids and cyborgs a strong presence,
in case someone out there would happen upon it and would like to join in a
conversation about the related topics.
