"Famous" already videos of Boston Dynamics, where they are trying in every possible way to beat and attack robots. It is clear that with this they are testing various systems of movement and interaction with the outside world for the robot. But on the Internet, after such videos, you can almost always hear: "why are you making fun of the poor robots", "they will answer you someday."
By the way, a new video from this series. Have you seen?
The protagonist of this video is a copy of the famous Atlas robot, created using computer graphics. And several "supposedly employees" of Boston Dynamics, in the best traditions of this company, kick, beat and even shoot the robot with a pistol until the robot "gives them back".
The quality of the computer graphics in this video is at such a high level that everything that happens is perceived as reality. Naturally, most people have feelings of resentment directed at the people bullying the robot, and empathy directed at the robot itself. This is a completely natural reaction for humans, and it shows what problems we can face when robots like Atlas become familiar things in our environment.
Some of the people may argue that a human cannot harm a robot. Yes, of course, robots do not have their own awareness, do not feel pain and, from this point of view, they can only be broken. However, despite such an obvious fact, it is quite easy to force a person to consider robots as people with all the ensuing consequences. “We are biologically predisposed to consider alive any isolated object that moves independently in the space around us,” says Kate Darling, an ethicist and robotics specialist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Thus, most people will subconsciously count robots alive."
Knowledge of this problem can help in the future to shape the human mentality so that people treat robots "like human beings," so to speak. This, in turn, will avoid the emergence of individuals who, reveling in their supposedly unlimited power, will vandalize in front of everyone in relation to robots doing their work or helping people on the streets, in supermarkets or in other public places.
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Note that the first video shown was created by a Los Angeles-based company called Corridor Digital, which has long specialized in similar things for the cinema. Below is the second video, in which Corridor Digital employees demonstrate the techniques they used. The first video shown here is a slightly trimmed-down version of the original video, from which the scene has been removed when a robot "enraged" in the end takes people under the gun's sight.