Robotics Reference
In-Depth Information
Part III
The Next Fifty Years
In which we examine the giant leaps that will inevitably lead to the
creation of super-human robots and discuss how these robots will af-
fect the lives of our grandchildren fifty years from now. Today we are
in sight of the technologies that will endow robots with consciousness,
making them as deserving of human-like rights as we are; robots who
will be governed by ethical constraints and laws, just as we are; robots
who love, and who welcome being loved, and who make love, just as we
do; and robots who can reproduce. This is not fantasy—it is how the
world will be, as the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence are revealed to
be almost without limit.
