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The robot tapping the “I’m not a robot” tickbox had me in stitches! 
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Wait! What about the robot laws?
Three Laws robots are no good for combat so they will probably not be used. 
Zeroth law can be a pretty good way around that too.
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When I was in college, Isaac Asimov came to VU and gave a talk. Needless to say it was fascinating. In it he discussed the (“his”) Three Laws of Robotics.
There had recently been a incident where a worker had been accidentally killed by an industrial robot and how the press had held up this as a violation of the 3 Laws. Dr. Asimov explained that there had been a safety railing around the robot with an automatic shut off when the safety railing’s gate was opened. This arrangement effectively served as the 1st Law until the unfortunate victim had bypassed the safety, this negating the 1st law. I have always remembered that and thought it was a pretty cool example / explination.
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Most industrial robots are stronger than any man. Their servodrives in their axis produce high amount of torque. The biggest used in automotive industry have payloads up to 1 ton - like KUKA KR1000 TITAN. Those robots always need their workspace to be enclosed and protected by external safety devices, like light curtains or gates which will deactivate automatic mode if passed through. The robot itself will not know if he is crushing someone or something (although it will stop its motion when enough torque is encountered and produce an overload/overtorque error), it is the application designer job to design safe environment for the robot and people who operate it to work in.
Although there are new kind of robots - cobots (collaborative robots) which are usually smaller and can detect small and unpredicted increase in torque (which basically mean they hit something). Those robots don’t need any kind of enclosed work zone and can work with humans safely.
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Until…
That was the equation! (Ruk - What little girls are made of)
Wheels
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then it is not a robot but killing machine 
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Wheels
LOVE IT!
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… but why
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If the buttons work, I‘d buy it!!
On Fridays I‘d load rockets and cluster bombs.
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