MIT Boffins Think Robots Can Perceive and Feel

The So-Called Intellects from MIT Talk About Robots “Interacting”

So, Luca Carlone and Jonathan How, these two overgrown kids from MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) are frolicking around the idea that future robots will discern and interact with their environment. Like we haven’t heard that one before.

What Could Happen If Robots Had ‘Feelings’

Apparently, these wannabe Tony Starks think that designing future robots to interact with an environment is the next Big Bang. They suggest that these wonky automatons will outsmart us lowly humans by gathering information through perception and data analysis. Yeah right, as if my Roomba getting stuck under the couch isn’t enough evidence to debunk that claim.

My Hot take on this Technobabble

In a nutshell, Carlone and How are daydreaming about creating robots so intelligent they could probably write these summary better than me. But guess what, fellas? We’ve got enough real people in the world to deal with, and now we’re supposed to start worrying about robot feelings too? I give it 2 weeks before these rom-com robots start shedding tears over broken heart songs. All in all, MIT might want to consider designing a course called “Getting Over Robot Fantasies 101”.

Original article:https://news.mit.edu/2023/honing-robot-perception-mapping-0710