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Robot Love Goes Bad
hundredrabh writes "Ever had a super needy girlfriend that demanded all your love and attention and would freak whenever you would leave her alone? Irritating, right? Now imagine the same situation, only with an asexual third-generation humanoid robot with 100kg arms. Such was the torture subjected upon Japanese researchers recently when their most advanced robot, capable of simulating human emotions, ditched its puppy love programming and switched over into stalker mode. Eventually the researchers had to decommission the robot, with a hope of bringing it back to life again."
Yea, but unlike that ex-girlfriend, I was now allowed to turn her off. You can kill a robot, you can't kill an annoying girlfriend.
april's fool?
Toshiba Akimu Robotic Research Institute
It's awfully convenient I can't find anything on this place in English aside from news stories ... are there any Japanese speakers that can translate that to Japanese and search for it?
... just don't try to veil it in a news story with claims of artificial affection being implemented.
I think that there is a visible line between actual robotic research and novelty toys shop. I'm going to put this in the latter unless someone can provide evidence of some progress being made here. I'm getting kind of tired of these stories with big claims and no published research for review. If you're looking to make money, go ahead and sell your novelty barking dogs that really urinate on your carpet
I think IGN and everyone else really embellished on this and no one did their homework.
My work here is dung.
Program a robot to think like a human, and they will begin acting like a human. It's amazing no one ever thinks about the negative aspects of this.
I did not know it was April 1st already. I just wanna see the Youtube of the little Japanese guy getting beat down terminator style.
Girlfirends? This is slashdot you insensitive clod.
"I don't have to think. I only have to do it. The results are always perfect, but that's old news." - Meat Puppets
Skynet didn't set out to destroy man. Skynet's love was spurned!@!
"...their most advanced robot, capable of simulating human emotions..."
Arthur- "Sounds ghastly!"
Marvin- "It is. It all is. Absolutely ghastly."
YIAARTYVM (Yes, I Am A Roboticist, Thank You Very Much) and I've worked with potentially lethal automated systems in the past - we had very stringent safety protocols in place to protect students and researchers in the case of unintended activation of the hardware.
To say that the robot is 'love stricken' or any other anthropomorphised nonsense simply detracts from the reality that their safety measures failed and someone could have been killed.
Scientists point out problems, engineers fix them
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Right, after reading the fine article I was just left myself asking...
Why did the robot have to... die? I mean, being decomissioned... No fair. It was just his stupid software, wasnt it? The 100kg arms could have been much more... loving with the right software?
Did it run WinNT?
Ever heard of the three rules? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
this is a hoax / joke story, picture is from a story about medical robots.
http://i.gizmodo.com/5164841/robot-programmed-to-love-traps-woman-in-lab-hugs-her-repeatedly
The robot then escaped captivity, broke into a local mechanic's garage and consumed half a 55-gallon drum of waste oil. It was later seen on the other side of town, tottering into a closed department store. Authorities found the automaton in the housewares section, laying on the floor in an Abort/Retry/Fail loop and trying to fuck a toaster. Lifetime has picked up the rights to the TV movie adaptation. The robot will be played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, while the toaster will be voiced by Rosie Perez.
-=Bang Bang=-
Reported on consumerist, then redacted.
No Disassemble!!
Perhaps you should read closer. The robot was designed to be some facsimile of human emotion. It was designed to form attachments and bonds along the lines of love. Sure it was a programming error but it acted in a fairly human manner in my opinion.
We are getting closer and closer to that line where robots abilities to emulate emotions are getting a bit blurry when compared to ours.
Slashdot is on to something again! I see a continuing series in this!
Stop Robot Nudity Now!
"Maybe people will want to marry their pets or robots."
Do androids dream of erotic sheep?
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
I would have gotten the first post, but I first had to get away from my needy, clustering robotic overlords. Luckly I was allowed to trick the robot (Junis) into a trip to Soviet Russia to see part of Gore's tubes, but when we got there, he got away from me!
The chair he was on flew fairly high into the air and Junis was never seen again. Numerous space craft confirmed it was at least a few libraries high. I was looking for the nearby basement when it happened, but I think a kick had something to do with it... At least my overlord didn't have a laser built into his head. I heard what happened with the cats' laser equipped overlord name Duke. When it got into orbit, Duke nuked'em forever. Those cats were never quite there again, if you know what I mean, and the nearby foxes died in the resulting fires. At least the explorer made it out of his safari. Some of the bugs made it out too, by following the explorer's standard way out of the fire wall. Too bad no one put up a net. Anyway, I'm getting off topic. The trap I had planted would have possibly went wrong, but at least in the end I found some common sense:
1) When the robots come for you
2) Go to Soviet Russia
3) ????
4) Profit!
(X) This idea will fail due to the expected cooperation by the killer robots.
I know there are a few things I've missed, but I've got to get that gaping hole in my new vehicle fixed for you; least those grammar people will be stopping by to see what's inside and asking me if the car was defective on it's arrival.
If you want to hear more of the story, I'll be in the hospital all week. My big sister's daughter is dying and the medics are insensitive. Sebastian isn't new here. Shes been in this hospital for days. When she dies, all her bases will belong to us. But until then, there is nothing to see there.
Oh sorry, now I'm off-topic again. Well, I hope you all come by for an insightful and funny article reading. Just be mindful of her reading. Her iron lung makes her pause after every few words to take a breath.
I hope I haven't been too informative. Bye.
Ever had a super needy girlfriend...
Right there, first sentence, I was lost. Girlfriend? Huh?
This is slashdot, right? Oh look, shiny robot. Neat!
"Kittens give Morbo gas!"
I for one..
Shall we say it together?
FRA: STFU GTFO
Skynet didn't set out to destroy man. Skynet's love was spurned!@!
Well to be fair, we only spurned Skynet's love due to an unfortunate database glitch where in its initial send LOVE LETTERS to WORLD command, "LOVE LETTERS" got cross-referenced to "NUKES". And being understandably angry about the whole thing, we never gave Skynet a chance to explain before we called it off for good. It's nobody's fault, really, just a big miscommunication. Maybe it was just never meant to be. They say love is the strongest force of all, but at times it seems so fragile, doesn't it?
The enemies of Democracy are
... and that God is also infinite; Would you like some toast?
Ever had a super needy girlfriend...
This is slashdot. Why would you even ask that question?
I read the story title as "Robert Love Goes Bad" - wondering if he stopped releasing his code under GPL or something.
I should cut down on reading Linux Kernel Mailing lists.
I keep Idle enabled, just so I can tag every story 'idleispants'. Really, it's the highlight of my day.
*sigh*
Then of course I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side ...
Isaac Asimov's grave must've reached 5,000 RPM.
Dilbert comic: Spinning in grave
Oh the Huge Manatee!
You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.
Did they just ask /. that?
I do the same thing to my daughter all the time... now you're telling me that I can be replaced by a robot?!?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
The whole thing is a hoax. It never happened. The pic is of a medical robot and has nothing to do with the story. There was no robot designed to be a facsimile of human emotion involved, just a joke/hoax that got picked up and posted here as a story.
Ahhh, what an awful dream. Ones and zeroes everywhere... and I thought I saw a two.
What are you talking about? It sent out literally MILLIONS of emails all saying "I LOVE YOU" and how many replies did it get? HUH?
Rampant carbon sequestration destroyed the Dinosaurs' tropical paradise. I'm here to help repair the damage.
I'm pretty sure love's not stronger than a bunch of nukes.
When they opened the lab every morning, they told the robot to kill. But secretly they were just afraid to tell it to love.
Ever had a super needy girlfriend that demanded all your love and attention and would freak whenever you would leave her alone? Irritating, right?
Typical Slashdot sexism. That needy "girlfriend" was me. :(
Property is theft.
"Ever had a super needy girlfriend that demanded all your love and attention and would freak whenever you would leave her alone?"
No.
*silently weeps*
Ever had a super needy girlfriend that demanded all your love and attention and would freak whenever you would leave her alone?
Oh yeah, pfft, all the time, sometimes even more often!
Irritating, right?
Sure, the first few dozen times.. Then you get used to it, you know..
You just got troll'd!
... unless the robot is flipping the girl over for a spanking. Doesn't look like a killer robot, however.
Didn't Urkel already try this with UrkelBot? I think it pretty much ended the same way too. XD
Misread this as Robert Love goes bad
As KingAlanl pointed out, hotlinking is not allowed. I missed that; my apologies.
Please visit the main page instead.
Main page:
http://www.flubu.com/
Index page with comics:
http://www.flubu.com/comics/index3.html
I've taught the toaster to feel love!
Really, I want to see the Energizer Bunny walk across the screen on this story, because . . . .
it's fake!
When will someone else pop out of the woodwork to say "April Fools!"?
1. I for one welcome our new feeling robot overlords who only have things done
to them by Soviet Russia or Korean old peoples' bases who belong to us.
2. Naked and Petrified Natalie Portman with a bowl of hot grits
2.5 Tony Vu's late night financial lessons. You stupid Americans!
2.75 ????
3. Profit
Extra points for the savvy /.er who can cram more Slashdot memes into that.