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(2013) : Human robots and robotic humans In: Koops, Bert-Jaap; Lüthy, Christoph H.; Nelis, Annemiek; Sieburgh, Carla; Jansen, J. P. M.; Schmid, Monika S. (Hg.): Engineering the human: Human enhancement between fiction and fascination: New York, NY: Springer-Verlag Publishing, S. 83-100
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35096-2_7 Abstract: Humans and machines are, at present, viewed as two distinct categories differentiated by their unique biological or artificial configuration and capabilities. This chapter argues that the two will, in the near future, increasingly partake of the nature of the other as a result of technological enhancement. A number of recent developments within the field of robotics are already causing the traditional boundaries between humans and machines to fade, both as a result of mankind’s increasing reliance on modern technology and of technological developments which allow modern machines to imitate human behavior to a high degree. Modern technology thus has the potential to aid and even modify the human organism by artificial means. The construction of such advanced forms of humanoid machines, or ’androids’, requires a reconceptualisation of what makes humans characteristically human, as well as requiring us to pay attention to the potential consequences of constructing such humanlike machines. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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