Humanoid Robots In The Movie Terminator

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This valley, thus lies between robots sufficiently different from man not to scare, and robots sufficiently humanoid to leave indifferent. But even if some humanoid robots are outside the disturbing valley, some may still feel uncomfortable in front of their overly copied men. Particular individuals suffering from paranoid psychosis. In this case, the encounter with robots could entail reactions of rejection with the desire to live outside the society, lest their surroundings have been replaced by an armada of robots.
These reactions can be stimulated by cinematography or literature. Indeed, Hollywood studios have repeatedly used the subject of humanoid robotics, as for example in the movie Terminator. In this film, a humanoid robot interpreted …show more content…

Thus, the robot can replace the man in all the difficult tasks and constraints. Japan lacks skilled labor. Because of the competitive spirit of the students, the population is doing too well in school. Moreover, the country is very developed, so the population lives longer and longer, and the share of the working population is decreasing. The solution is clear: the robots will replace us. Obviously, robots appear as saviors, we create robots to replace us in video-conferences, in hostesses, in theater, in school, in concert, on the moon, they even play sports in our place. Any pretext becomes valid to build robots, just find something they still do not know how to start their creation. But what will Japan look like in the utopian situation where money would not be a problem to place a robot behind every dying person, every elderly person, every baby, every sick person, alone, or needing coffee or Having fun. Robots would then seem indispensable and people would wonder how the previous generations have made to live without the robots as we wonder how people did without electricity. Of course, the search for a lot of progress to be made to develop robots, and their cost of manufacturing and especially purchasing may never be within reach of the basic household. But by moving towards this situation, the small part of the social relationship that remained among men was suppressed. The film Wall-E illustrates exactly this thought in which each human being is spoken only by screen interposed and lives only through

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