“Are you a human or a bot!
Make a mistake you will be caught!
Then again the bots don’t care!
Tis the feelings that makes humans rare!”
One of the best children series was this amazing series about a little boy and his giant robot!
I used to love watching that show which used to come once in a week or so!
It was called Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot or the Giant robot!
That was our first fascination with Robots! And even they apparently follow some laws! or!?
read on!
In the series the Kid had a watch which used to control the Robot! It was so cool which lead to our fascination with the watch!
There was a time when your imagination was that you could press a button on your watch and communicate with someone! Voila! That is a reality now!
Of course you cannot control any Giant Robot for now but still you can do a lot of stuff which would have been part of science fiction at the time!
Even in those days the special effects was so good that we could see this huge Robot lifting a car or how his palm was big enough for Johnny to sit!
Now sure they show how the ‘Robot’ only follows the one wearing the watch but later on they show how ‘it’ responds to emotions!
Now by the time this series came into our TVs Robot was a common terminology, but the term was first used in 1921 by Czech playwright Karel Capek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)!
The play involves a factory that builds artificial people to be servants for humans. In fact the story is that one of the humans feels pity on the Robots and frees them and finally they become so powerful that it leads to the extinction of humans!
But since the robots can’t reproduce, even they face extinction soon! This is ironical when they actually kill the last human who could actually make more of the ‘Robots’!
Robot term is drawn from an old Church Slavonic word, robota, for “servitude,” “forced labor” or “drudgery.” The word, which also has cognates in German, Russian, Polish and Czech, was a product of the central European system of serfdom by which a tenant’s rent was paid for in forced labor or service!
In early drafts of his play, Čapek named these creatures labori, after the Latin root for labor, but worried that the term sounded too “bookish.” At the suggestion of his brother, Josef, Čapek ultimately opted for roboti, or in English, robots!
In the end, there is a deus ex machina moment, when two robots somehow acquire the human traits of love and compassion and go off into the sunset to make the world again!
The play of course was well received but the fear of the Robots is real!
Since many have this fear; Isaac Asimov the master of Robot based stories had made the classic three laws of Robot which is supposed to protect us from the Robotic hurricane!
The first and foremost law is that “A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm”
The second laws is that, “A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law”
and finally the third law is that “A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law”
Of course these are laws made my humans for the Robots to follow! When many Humans do not follow laws! Can the ones made by them be sure to follow the laws made for them by someone else!
That is a Question for the AI! Or maybe a great mentalist! Thinking of Mentalist reminds me of the Guru in Apta MItra which is the celebrity Avinash!
Now before you think about the laws for the Robot, Try to follow the human ones!
SHubh ratri!
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