Robots could demand legal rights

**Hepcat** · 12-22-2006, 12:01

I still think that even if we were capable of building them we wouldn't build many, what would be the point ?

They would probably market them as purchasable partners for extremely lonely people who don't really have a life and can't make any human friends. Then we would have robot marrages and divorces when they decide that their partner is just a lazy slob and they don't want to do all the chores anymore.

RoboPal: "I'm sick of you, you only ever treat me like a cheap piece of hardware! Don't you care for me anymore!"

**doc_bean** · 12-22-2006, 12:15

Originally Posted by Hepcat

They would probably market them as purchasable partners for extremely lonely people who don't really have a life and can't make any human friends. Then we would have robot marrages and divorces when they decide that their partner is just a lazy slob and they don't want to do all the chores anymore.

RoboPal: "I'm sick of you, you only ever treat me like a cheap piece of hardware! Don't you care for me anymore!"

The Space Pope says dating robots is wrong !

**The_Doctor** · 12-22-2006, 16:51

Then we would have robot marrages

What about gay robots?

**Crazed Rabbit** · 12-22-2006, 19:50

They can't even make a car that can go from point A to B in a freakin' desert (a competition held by the Pentagon, big rewards for however figures that one out).

That was the first competition, IIRC subsequent competitions had the robots doing much better. Also 'point A to point B' was a 60+ mile offroad trail.

Oh, to the topic, this is a load of crap. Some professor is a touchy feely pansy. Though I suspect the UK would be the kind of country that gives robots rights. Anyone else seeing mass produced robots programmed to vote a certain way?

CR