Robotics and Art

    Nowadays we are living in a world that is full of mechanization and industrialization. Robot is immersed in our daily life, from the cleaning machine to the automobile etc. It becomes more and more urgent to ask about the question: Will robots invade out lives?
    People's attitude towards robot is alway changing. Because of the human instinct, we are naturally scared of anything that is new and unknown. When robot, the mechanical artificial agent, first appeared in our life, we hardly accept it. Like in the movie The Imitation Game which is based on the biography Alan Turing : The Enigma by Andrew Hodges, the British cryptanalyst Alan Turing devoted himself to artificial intelligence and helped solve the Enigma code during the Second World War by inventing the first computer in the world. However, before Turing's machine could work successfully, the commander Denniston even ordered it destroyed and stopped any foundation. From here we can tell that no matter in what time period, there always have people cannot understand and against developing robotics. As time passes by, robot gets more and more involved in the mass production and industrialization that benefit human a lot, so people began to accept it generally. Like in the video "Dirt: The Homeless Robot", people can't help to touch the robot that looks like a homeless and become so curious about its appearance.

        On the other hand, when our tolerance to robot is increasing, we start to scare of another thing: will robot becomes too powerful and take over human beings? Through the development of robotics, the design of robot is more and more humanoid now, and some robot even have self-aware and emotion. So we are worry that robot will supersede the human position one day. But people can actually accept and make better used of what they used to be afraid of. For example, like in the popular Japanese animation Astroboy, which was released after Second World War that the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the robot Astro Boy actually using the nuclear power as the fuel. Also as it's known to all, Japan has highly developed robotics.
    So I think what we need to do is to have a positive attitude toward the development of robot and make them improve our society better.

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