Technology and Robots: Increasing Efficiency in Industries

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Technology and Robots
Introduction
Why are we obsessed with artificial people? Dr. Kakoudaki indicates that it is because, through their narrative and cultural employment, robots display what it means to be human. Among the fundamental fantasies that describe robots is the drive to characterize them as slaves. This is well illustrated by Data; a robot in an episode of Star Trek the next generation titled “The Measure of a Man.” As a result, robots can only be viewed from a technological point of view as they are manufactured to work for humans.
Dr. Despina Kakoudaki work
Through Anatomy of a Robot, Dr. Kakoudaki suggests that robots teach humans that being a human is a steady process and frequently a subject of philosophical and political tussle. Robot’s struggles are a result of four fundamental elements; the fantasy of artificial birth, the fantasy of mechanical body, the tendency to refer to robots as slaves, and the interpretation of artificiality as an existential trope. When the elements are combined, robots or artificial people meet all the qualifications of a perfect slave.
Star Trek The Next Generation: “The Measure of a Man”
A moving scene in this film is how a particular robot (Data) is ordered to begin reverse-engineering of his self so that more robots can be built. Data’s legal rights are infringed upon but even his legal advocate, Captain Picard, is unsure of how he can save him on legal grounds. What is disturbing in this scene is that D...