The Advanced Robotic System Laboratories (ARSL for Short) is currently developing a robot they call PROTO. PROTO is a state of the art robot who’s goal is to develop a system to make communication between robots and humans more “natural” .
PROTO has movable eyes, eyebrows, mouth, hands etc… all of which are designed to make him more natural and easier to communicate with. I say all of these things just make him more freaky looking. Why make a robot look like a human? Why worry that we arn’t going to be able to communicate with a robot because it doesn’t have eyebrows? Its a robot. Just as we should not perscribe human emotions or feelings onto animals we should not build them into an artificial creature. First step: PROTO. Second step: T-800.
Thank god that for now he has to be hardlined into a computer in order to work. However ARSL does say that they PROTO will aid in the “development of a fully self-contained humanoid robot platform”. Will it be self contained to make it better equipped to try and find Sarah Connor? Thank god that they have the sense to keep this thing in chains
