Name: Princess S.

Panida
Course and Year: BSIT-2 Block-D
Subject: Science, Technology and Society (GE7)

Due to their utility, robotics have recently grown more and more appropriate in our
culture. Robots were first merely automated machines that could do a finite number
of jobs, but as time went on, both their complexity and usefulness grew. Engineers
and scientists have developed robotic talents over the years to the point where they
are now on par with human abilities in a number of ways. According to the
International Federation of Robotics, the first industrial robot was developed in the
1960s and utilized by the General Motors assembly line to weld parts to automobile
bodies. Engineers and even scientists are now more interested in creating and
developing more complex robots as a result of this. Professor of social studies of
science Sherry Turkle explores how society will be impacted by robots in her book
Alone Together: Why we Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other.
As Turkle examines the ramifications of social robots replacing people in society, she
goes a step further. Social robots have been trained to exhibit human-like emotions
and traits. She makes the case that social robots have unfavorable psychological
consequences on society and that it is unethical to replace robots with people. Turkle
uses numerous examples of social robots used as toys and even video games that
have been or are still played by adults and children today, such as Furbies,
Tomagotchi, and my real-baby and sociable robots, to provide her perspective on
and research on the Robotic Movement in the first section of her book. She came to
the conclusion that people can experience emotional and social repercussions from
emotive robots based on the findings of her research. She concentrates on the
consequences of empathetic robots replacing humans, if and when that happens.