NT2.1

I believe when robots are designed and created the creator has to have a very good understanding of what it means to be human. The reason the creator must have a good grasps on human qualities is because robots are meant to be human. They are meant to make human’s lives easier, which requires them to be able to handle human tasks and actions. In some cases, robots must be able to think and reason through certain situations so that humans do not have to.

I don’t think that we as humans can communicate without indications of emotion or intention. Even if we are sending an email or an instant message there is emotion and intention. It doesn’t have to be a smiley face or anything like that. We, as humans, demonstrate a lot of our emotion just through our language, which is one that full of rich emotion filled words.

Tank ties both of these ideas together. He is a robot programmed to do the tasks of a human. He is programmed to know remember certain things that a human with a receptionist job would have to do. He is also programmed to respond positively to people, by smiling and cracking jokes, something a human receptionist would also do.

I would think it would be much easier to work side by side with R. Daneel Olivaw if I didn’t know that he was a robot. This is not because a robot would scare me or bother me but rather because of how humanistic Olivaw is. It would just be very creepy and surreal to work with someone that on the outside seems completely human and normal, but to know that one the inside there is little difference between him and a coffee maker.