Beware the Wrath of Saya
“So, help me, if your teenager calls me a cyborg, one more time, I am violating one or more of Asimov’s Three Laws and I don’t care in which order.”
Singularity News has a blurb with links about the safety issue with domestic robots:
Some scientists are calling this advanced robotics wave a technological force poised to change human lifestyles more radically than the advent of the personal computer or the mobile phone. The onslaught of new robots led Japan’s Government to establish a committee to draw up safety guidelines for the keeping of robots in homes and offices. Safety is becoming a focus for domestic robot makers as interaction between machines and humans in the household becomes more common.
Hiroshi Kobayashi, professor and inventor at the Tokyo University of Science, cautions that some of the models have a temper.
