Will Robots Rise Up and Demand Their Rights?
Quite possibly, says Rodney Brooks, director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at M.I.T. Robots are, after all, becoming more human-like all the time, and as they get closer to the human model, we and they will think of them less as machines and more as beings. And one day they may call our bluff and ask to be treated as well or as badly as we treat one another.
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    web resources
    Robotics Internet Resources Page
    The UMass Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics Information Page

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