People let us be guided by our senses, that there is no doubt. Touched the cold metal and I found it far from our nature. Straight lines are alien to us, accustomed to the harmony of the curves. Empty eyes are a sign not of life, death or dementia. And if you ever intend robots win our hearts, be a more in our lives, must be according to our standards of humanity. Tatsuya Matsui knows this, and it works.
Surely you have a blender in your home, or a microwave oven. You use a blender to make juices and rich the microwave to heat the pizza you on the night before. Functions that, while not vital to your life, we will simplify it. But when the microwave stops heating the pizza you will not be welcomed. It is their role to do, what to buy that. It is a lifeless thing. In any case, thanks to your partner, if you prepare the pizza or the hot juice in the morning. Your partner is alive, do not buy into any business of home furnishings and it is not their role to make breakfast. We thank you because it makes you a favor.
If you ever try to make robots part of our life, be a more family will have to demonstrate not only that are more useful than a blender, but that they are one thing, something purchased, manufactured in series. Should issue life not just intelligence. But here the heterogeneous problem. The robots will never be living, at least not as we know it.
Fortunately (or not), it can create the illusion of life. Why ... How do you know that your partner is alive after all? Surely not opened to check for organs, blood and a beating heart. You just know he has it. Because walking is alive, because it breathes, emits heat, laugh, eat ... In short, it makes everything a person should live.
And here we fall into another problem in the design of robots. You can not imitate life. Attempts have been made have failed as a result so shocking. Something that looks like a human, but it is not ... is simply disturbing. Our intuition tells us that something is wrong and reject the idea. So, is it possible that a life without having something to look human? Well, of course, your cat does! And your cat does not speak, neither is going to work every morning. It is, quite simply, a cat. And, therefore, unless it is stiff and hard as wood, is alive. You know, period.
So, how we perceive life? According Tatsuya Matsui, something alive is something that generates and evoke emotions. Your microwave oven did not love you crazy, do not be sad, nor full of joy. Your cat and your partner together. Matsui believes that anything that generates excitement, you can (there is a possibility) be interpreted as something alive. Or at least that'll give you one chance that would otherwise not have. Typical Eastern philosophy, after all.
And here comes the most interesting, Matsui believes that the strongest feelings come from the weakness of others, his gentleness, beauty and need for protection. So, of course, he called his company Flower Robotics. Nothing more beautiful and delicate flower. Following this logic, it is not uncommon for one of its most beloved robots Posy is a robotita, white, pretty, bright and tender. And yes, I say, not robotita robot because its image evokes many things, so as not to treat it as an inanimate object. Posy is an attempt to "express the world view of a pure child of 3 years and completely change the atmosphere around it." Posy, can only prepare flowers and to extend the visit. But that is for him to fall over a nice and beautiful. And one knows it is a robot, can not have life. But that evokes. Tatsuya Matsui succeeded by providing its idea of our proposed model of innocence and weakness, the Platonic ideal of a real girl. It reflects our own feelings. And yes, life has ... in the sense illusory.
And why is it so important to the work of Tatsuya? Because you like it or not, maybe in a future not too distant future, robots will be part of our life, as today is the computer with which you read this article. Probably neither you nor I are alive to see it, who knows? But that will happen, will happen. Technological advances are not in doubt, we know that today is incredible potential robots. Not to mention 20 years from now. But in order to live among us, to join our family, they must earn our sympathy. But shall not be more sophisticated than a washing machine, and that's not all as we imagine the future of robotics, is it?
And the finishing touch of this article makes the same Matsui, saying: "We are designing an artificial object that can live as we do as a new partner. A robot that reminds us about human nature that we have forgotten"
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