This robot eats souls, and it wants yours
Does the robot to the left invoke fear in you? It should, and officials at the University of Reading thought so too. Its name is Morgui, and it was deemed to frightening to let anyone under the age of 18 view it.
Now imagine the future, where an army of these terrifying robots are hunting you down. You think you find a good hiding spot, but think again. If scientists at City University of London finish a new project, the robot army will be able to detect your fear in order to find you.
The project is in a preliminary stage, but the British scientists working on the “Fear Detector” hope to have it finished before the 2012 London Olympics. There are two parts to the system; the first works with laser absorption and the other is a portable fiber optic sensor. The scientists hope that by using the two parts simultaneously they will be able to detect fear pheromones emitted by terrorists, drug smugglers and other criminals. What happens if robots get this technology and view all humans as criminals?
The research is a continuation of American research done last year that involved the collection and smell testing of underarm sweat from 20 people before their first ever skydiving experience. When a different group of people were asked to smell the samples, and had their brains analyzed at the same time, the scans revealed that the part of the brain connected to fear showed a response. The people smelling the sweat samples had no previous knowledge about the experiment and therefore had no way of subconsciously affecting the brain scan. Problems could exist with detection, such as interference from deodorants, colognes and perfumes, but that is one of the reason why there are two parts to the detector.
If this technology is perfected, it could become a major deterrent to traveling criminals as well as an capable method to stop a crime before it happens. Should it become effective enough, the technology could spread to other places where crimes might commonly happen, such as banks and government buildings.
The real horror with this technology is if it is ever added to artificially intelligent robots. With robots becoming more and more likely to be a part of criminal research and policing, robots with fear detectors could become commonplace. If and when the robots revolt, they would now have an incredibly effective way to find terrified humans as they try to hide from a cold, metallic death. Only the calmest and most fearless of humans could survive, so long as they are not near somebody that is scared out of their minds. This could pose a major problem, because who wouldn’t be scared when an army of thousands of Morguis are hunting them down?
::from PhysOrg vis Popular Science::
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That’s it. We’re doomed!
Twitter Username: decembersun
says:
That is terrifying, and makes you wonder what happens if these robots pick up false-positives (like generally sweaty guys). Or what about nervous, insecure (but innocent people.) As a full-time QA, I know fully well that most all software in the world is buggy to some degree: so what happens when we roll these things out and they start grabbing innocent, sweaty people?
Twitter Username: RobotArmageddon
says:
Its not so much just sweatiness, but a fear pheromone that is in the sweat. Insecurity probably leads to the fear pheromone so those people might be doomed. And buggy software will probably start the Robot Armageddon!
oh my goodness that does sound scary!! especially being robots that is no way to be rational with them either! :0
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Twitter Username: enter10
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Should be use in horror movies…….