Building a Robot Body

In this post, I would like to give you brief idea about how Human body can be compared with a Robot, or how a Robot can be more of a human. Robots are generally classified into many types. We are not talking about all these types of Robots. However we will discuss about the Robots which are more similar to Humans.

Issue 2: Humans Vs Robots (Body)

Every Robot which is more like Human has some similar features to that of a human. Some of them are camera(eyes), microphone(ears), speakers(mouth), hands and legs which are responsible for movement and handling the surrounding objects, database(mind).

Apart from these features humans have some extra abilities which a Robot doesn't have, or doesn't have as of now. For example, humans use mouth to taste and speak, while Robots just use it to speak. This is because of the reason that, Robots doesn't need any food except for charging which is kind of mouth for them to get fed. And they don't have excretory organs as they don't take any physical food. The main reason for this is, they don't need to generate body except to use some energy to process things while humans are give with some ability to grow the body tissue and they also need energy.

So based on our theory, we need the Robot to generate its body. Hence we need a mouth which can take up some kind of food, and generate energy and also we need some excretory organs to send the waste out of the body.

Another part which Robots generally don't need is reproductive organ. Till now, there is no advancement in the reproduction of Robots (as of I know). Hence Robots doesn't need it. But for our theory we need organs for reproduction. This should be different for male and female, which are feasible for reproduction, just like human male and female organs.

Another major difference between Humans and Robots is senses. While Humans have sense, Robots doesn't have one. Hence Robots doesn't have a Nose, Taste buds or the touch senses. I will give explanation to each one of these in the following lines.

Nose: To explain this well. Consider an example of smells coming from a flower. Basically flower is another program with different body structure which is supposed to release some chemical combination as a gas from it. And if the gas is taken up by a Robot, there should be an internal part in the Robot which can understand the chemical composition, and trigger certain function in the database(brain) which gives signals that it is a pleasant smell or a bad smell. These smell protocols are also stored in the database(brain). Depending on the species of Robots, the attraction levels for different smells vary. For example, a bee can smell sweetness more than we humans. That's how we handle smells.

Taste buds: Similar to the smells, the chemical mixture when put on the tongue, and this mixture taste is broke down using a similar organ like nose to differentiate what taste does the food make. It is more like using RGB color combinations to generate different colors. If salt in the food is not of correct proportion, the taste would be different than it is.

Touch Senses: Similar to the above two features, we have sensors for the whole body. But this type the material is not differentiated based on the chemical mixture. It is differentiated based on the density of the material, temperature of the material, texture of the material and some other physical parameters. For example, we touch a wood, and feel it as solid, and touch an ice and say it as cold. These classifications based on density, temperature and textures are also recorded in the brain. 

You might be wondering how much information does brain keep hold of. Well, that's a tough question to answer. But to make it simple, when we were given birth, there is not much information in the brain. While growing and we getting to know the things, the brain stores them in the brain and is accessible to our use based on how often we trigger that particular section of the database. For example, in Operating systems, or in the database, we use a technique called indexing for faster processing of the data. If we are using the data very often, the data gets indexed faster and can be accessed quickly. If we don't use it much, the data might be lost as our brain might loose the link to the associated data, or the unused( not very often used) data space may be overwritten with some other data and it may be lost forever. 

In my next post, I will discuss more about other types of senses like feelings. Until then, keep thinking :)