Not long ago, robots that could help with chores were found only in science fiction. Today, they are becoming a reality. Companies are developing “carebots.” Carebots are robots that can act as helpers for humans.
2Carebots can help people by getting food, turning off lights, or reminding people to take medicine. Some can contact the police or lift people in and out of bed. Satoshi Shigemi is a chief robotics engineer in Japan. He explained that these robots are “designed to help those in society who need assistance.” Of course, good caretakers also provide emotional comfort. So some robotics companies design talking robots, too. These robots understand humans’ expressions and emotions. Designers have even created artificial cats that purr
In the video, the manager of the nursing home featured admitted that the family members of some of the elderly were disconcerted to see that their loved one believed that their robot companion was real. This is a legitimate concern because the members of the family may not want this for their elders. In contrast, these robots are proven to give comfort to those that use them. Elena Shoto conveys that robotic pets “...lowered stress levels and increase happiness.” This may be true, however it does not change the fact that many people are unsettled by robotic toys. As can be seen, they just aren't the same as flesh and blood
Knowing that humans are complex individuals, I know it is essential to listen and watch client behaviors. Therefore, I currently can assist individuals by helping people realize their nonverbal cues. For example, if a client stated, “I am happy.” But the
Authentic and intimate relationships are very important in our life. Turkle has defined the word authenticity in her article. She says that “Authenticity, for me, follows from the ability to put oneself to the place of another, to relate to the other because of shared store of human experiences: we are born, have families, and know loss and the reality of death. A robot, however sophisticated, is patently out of this loop” (268). By stating this she wants point out that when mankind shares experiences with others, they get attached emotionally and establish authentic relationships. However, sharing experiences with robots does not involve emotions, because robots are not humans. They are just human made creatures which seem alive, but cannot have any feelings. People use robots to make love out of it and to share their feelings. “Love and sex seems to celebrate an emotional dumbing down, a willful turning away from the complexities of human partnership- the inauthentic as a new aesthetic” (268). Here aesthetic means appreciating the beauty of robots. When people start loving robots, they appreciate the beauty of unreal relationships with robots rather than having real and intimate relationships. Having love and sex with robots has no emotions involved. As a technological creature, robot can only give pleasure and satisfaction to the user without any feelings of love and care. There are many medical technologies which are developed to make produce love in inauthentic way. Slater talks about the medical technology like neural implantation. She talks about Mario who had OCD and got neural implantation to love his daughter and his family. Slater says that, “He wanted a shot at the ordinary, a lawn he might mow just once a week. The ability to endure the mess and touch of children. He decided the
The Public Health Imperative measures the quality of life of an individual during times of severe chronic illness. This health imperative is characterized by: the potential to prevent suffering caused by the illness, major impact, and high burden. In the recent past is has become evident that care for older people, who have potential to become terminally ill, must be focused on. The types of patients may also lose the capability to make some of their most important decisions which include actions made by health professionals that are related to their end of life situation. Luckily actions were made to identify certain priorities pertaining to the public health and end of life issues. These priorities were established by the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors and the Healthy Aging Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These end of life health priorities which address short-term, medium-term and long-term needs are also called advanced care planning. It can be concluded that communication between professionals and among families about the patient can enhance the effectiveness of advanced care planning.
Today, many robots are made to not only help humans in everyday tasks like cleaning and assisting people in jobs, but to plug oil spills, do what astronauts cannot do in space, fight alongside soldiers in the army, and more. Although robots do many things, the most common is rescuing people in severe danger. The Miner-Bot 1.0 was designed to save those who are trapped in collapsed parts of mine shafts. This could save those thousands of people who die in mining accidents every year, helping the world in social, political, and economical aspects.
To start off with, Turkle vividly describes how robots are used as a substitute for other people or things and help imagine robots in every day life. My Real Baby was noted as an example, which quickly turned into My Real Babysitter. My Real Babysitter was an idea formed from the idea that children are left alone all too often and babysitters are sometimes hard to come by in cases of emergencies. This robotic babysitter would replace the human version, integrating itself into daily life. The children explained that there is only so much a robot babysitter would do and it wouldn’t create an even playing field between human and robotic babysitters. Turkle came to the conclusion that children with lively and creative babysitters would rather keep theirs and children with boring babysitters would prefer the robotic version. The AIBO, a robotic dog, was also used as an example in the novel. In the case of eight-year-old Zara, she says that with a teddy bear you have to put in the work to create the teddy bears thoughts and feeling, but, with the AIBO, it already thinks what it wants and is expressing. Also, if the robotic dog is bugging you, ...
A major falling point of robots and machines when placed in a human’s position is that robots cannot improvise. Robots can only do what they are programmed to do. if Damasio is right, emotions are ‘improvised’ by the human brain even before someone is conscious of what they are feeling. Therefore it is even harder to make machines feel true emotions. An example of this exists in Ray Bradbury’s short story “August 2026.” A completely automated house survives after nuclear warfare has devastated the Earth. Cheerful voices go on announcing schedules and birth dates, the stove prepares steaming hot food right on time, and robotic mice keep the house spotless and free of dust- in eerie contrast to the barren and destroyed city surrounding it. The house lets nothing in, closing its shutters even to birds, but lets in a sick and famished stray dog, which limps into the house and dies. The robotic mice think nothing of the dead dog but a mess that needed cleaning up: “Delicately sensing decay at last, the regiments of mice hummed out as softly as blown gray leaves in an electrical wind. Two-fifteen. The dog was gone. In the cellar, the incinerator glowed suddenly and a whirl of sparks leaped up the chimney.” The house, seeming so cheerful, caring for its attendants, has no compassion or reverence for the dog. The mice were programmed to clean up messes, and nothing beyond. This is why in science
Jean Watson’s Theory of Caring. Since its establishment as a profession more than a century ago, nursing has been a source for numerous debates related to its course, methods and development of nursing knowledge. Many nursing definitions and theories have evolved over time. Furthermore, it is in a constant process of being redefined.
When I became a nurse, in my heart, I knew that I was a caring person; however, I did not have a caring theory driving my practice. After studying Watson’s Human Caring Science Theory, the theory is consistent with my values, which emphasizes a holistic approach with mind, body, and spirit through a caring nurse patient relationship in an environment that promotes healing, comfort, and dignity. Human Caring Science gives the privilege of viewing human life with wonder, respect, and appreciates small and large miracles, which allows the inner world of the patient and nurse to come together in a unique human relationship, in the here and now moment (Watson, 2012, p. 24).
The interested party explained that this is because the robot can suggest proper commodities and services, judging from age, gender, emotion, and consumptions habits. This contributes to maximized customer satisfaction and economic feasibility. Likewise, with the advent of emotion feeling AI, service industry is now one of the main areas that AI can substitute. Aside from that, there are numerous AI being used in service area. In Japan, there is a weird hotel called HENN-NA Hotel. Most of the hotel employees are artificial intelligent robots. They help customers check-in and out, carry their baggage just like a servant. Also, there is a robot called Huggable. It was invented to take care of young diabetics. It can play 'I spy' game with the patients and let them know postprandial glucose level that they intake. Likewise, AI has already invaded in service industry pretty much. This became a reality thanks to the Exobrain and Deepview technology. Exobrain, as it is implied in the word, stands for the artificial brain outside of our body. In
Artificial Intelligence, also known as AI, allows a machine to function as if the machine has the capability to think like a human. While we are not expecting any hovering cars anytime soon, artificial intelligence is projected to have a major impact on the labor force and will likely replace about half the workforce in the United States in the decades to come. The research in artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly at an unstoppable rate. So while many people feel threatened by the possibility of a robot taking over their job, computer scientists actually propose that robots would benefit a country’s efficiency of production, allowing individuals to reap the benefits of the robots. For the advantage of all, researchers and analysts have begun to mend the past ideas of human-robot interaction. They have pulled inspiration from literary works of Isaac Asimov whom many saw as the first roboticist ahead of his time, and have also gotten ideas of scholarly research done by expert analysts. These efforts have began to create an idea of a work force where humans and robots work together in harmony, on a daily basis.
Through the use of technology, we can create robots that do can our work for us. In the report “What the Future of Robots Could Look Like” by CNN reporter Chris Atkeson, Atkeson points out that, “Wearable technology like Fitbit, Jawbone and other monitoring devices that can record data such as heart rate, body temperature, number of steps taken, estimated calories burned, as well as monitor sleep patterns and quality, and eating habits” In short, robots have made our lives easier by doing our work for us. While there certainly are downsides for robots replacing us such as diminishing our basic abilities, on the contrary, robots have allowed us to perform tasks we could not have done before. For instance, robots can allow us to investigate and research hazardous areas without risking the life of a person. All in all, robots have made our lives easier as they can replace us in work that would be difficult to
I don’t think there is any reason for these robots to have every ability that a human does. There is no way they are going to have the intelligence a human does. Artificial Intelligence is just going to bring more harm into our communities. We can’t trust the robots doing the “everyday” human activities, they are going to lead to unemployment, and will lead to laziness causing more obesity.
The robotic technology development is gaining momentum in the 21st century. A robot can be defined as a machine that performs different tasks and can be programmed by humans (Pangka, Hui and Yan 2013). The qualities of robots such as tirelessness and lack of emotionality makes them perfect task performers. Robots are used in many spheres such as domestic service, military, and healthcare. There are also several types of robots used in medicine. Robots can be used as nurse assistants, patient companions and also robots can perform some easy surgeries or assist surgeons. The purpose of this project is to describe the impacts of using robotic technology in medicine. Robots accomplish procedures less riskily and with greater accuracy (Golub and Tkacheva 2011). One example of using the robotic technology in medicine is a humanoid robot NAO which is aimed at healing children with autism by interacting with them. Despite some limitations and the novelty of this robot, the application of the robot NAO into medicine has significant benefits and is probably the most effective solution for autism.
In case of emergencies, robots could reduce the percentage of fatal damages that occurs through these cases. In fact, humans’ lives are much valuable and precious rather than robots, in which societies could use robots to scarify through the dangerous situation for the sake of rescuing people. In addition, dangerous situations such as firefighting or earthquake require much effort, precision, and scarifying in the evacuation process. Furthermore, a beneficial feature that could help robots to coexist through the risky situations easily and preform the rescuing mission perfectly is that robots do not have feelings or emotions. According to Bruemmer (2006), robots do not have the ability to realize or notify any aspect that people do not programmed them to do. In other words, robots are merely machines that cannot feel or recognize what surrounding them without a sophisticated program done by humans. Therefore, as robots do not have the ability of feeling or knowing they could go through inhumane conditions for saving people. Moreover, robots have various capabilities that make them unique enable them to do heavy duties and bear more serio...