task
1 Describe the pictures below.
2 Explain in your words what a robot is.
Which tasks and duties do you think they can help with?
Can you tell the difference between a robot and an android?
Would you like to have a robot? Would you have it at home?
Do you think a person can grow feelings for a robot?
Should they have some sort of robot rights?
3 Watch the clip below.
4 Read the following extract from Isaac Asimov’s Laws. Talk about the possible consequences of building a society of robots.
The Zeroth Law of Robotics
0. A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.