How do robots destroy flesh? This is the subject of a current academic study, Gothically enough. A presentation to IEEE was described elegantly as "robots with knives."
a robot arm was programmed to strike, stab and puncture using an array of household tools that included a steak knife, kitchen knife, scissors and screwdriver. Stabs and cuts inflicted on a silicone lump and the leg from a dead pig were deemed potentially lethal.
Just in case you couldn't complete the picture,
Human volunteers also subjected their arms to the tender mercies of the slasher bots, but only when a prototype safety system was engaged. The collision detection system used torque sensors to spot when it hits a different substance and freeze in mid-motion, so that damage to the human subjects was limited.
Creepy Robots has more evidence.
Stories like this should probably be accompanied by more pornography. A robot BDSM porn industry? We do live in the future.
National stereotypes be damned, but there's something chilling (or funny) in German scientists leading this study.
(via joshua schachter)
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