Humanoids Can be Humanish but Never Humans
Exaggeration through flights of imagination using superficial and tentative experiments is a sure-fire way to capture attention and make a topic viral without the responsibility of showing progress or results. The topic of complete ‘Humanization of Robots’ is the current popular flight of fancy. True, robots are progressively performing advanced functions, but only as programmed by humans and not voluntarily. There is no intention to decry humanoids’ contribution; we have in India a special day for ‘ yantra pooja’ when we worship implements, machines, and devices; humanoids, too, will be treated the same. Currently, machines can be verbally instructed in some fields. That is alright for simple tasks. But human communication is a complex phenomenon that severely limits man-machine communication. The renowned communications expert, Dr. Albert Mehrabian, says that only 7% of meaning is conveyed through verbal communication and as much as 93% is conveyed through non-verbal ways - 38%