LAWS OF ROBOTICS | robotics

Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics

Introducion -

The three laws of robotics, also known as Asimov’s laws are a set of rules that robots should follow. The rules are:

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

There is also a fourth law, also known as the zeroth law. This law comes before all other laws. The zeroth law is A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

3 SCENARIOS RELATING TO THE THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS

Scenario For 1st Law of Robtics -

Billy works at a car manufacturer. For a living, he helps build and design cars. To help with his work, Billy uses industrial robots, so he doesn’t have to do all the greasy work. Billy codes and controls the industrial robots, so they do what they are told and programmed to do. Once a week it is Billy’s role to go out and make sure that there are no faults and that all machines are working properly. One day at work Billy programs the robots to lift and hold a car up so he can see the bottom of a vehicle that is new work for the company. The robots all lift the car for Billy to look under, but when Billy stands under the car one of the robots stops doing what it is told and drops the car on Billy, This industrial robot did not follow the first law of robotics.

Scenario For Second Law of Robotics -

At a plane manufacture company, several industrial robots are used in order to construct the plane. Mark is the man in charge at this company and he has a number of employees who are assigned a single robot in which they must make checks on and program what they need to do in order to make the plane.

The robots obey what they told to do. However, when day, a robot is not given a part that is needed to make the plane safe for use. So the robot stops working because if it continued working without this part, it would be putting any passengers and pilots that would’ve been using the plane.

Scenario For Third Law of Robotics -

Industrial robots are slowly getting outdated. Industrial robots have to prove and show humans that they are still better than any new robot that is starting to take over their positions. So with some help from human programming, industrial robots are showing what they still have left in them. The robots improve in their speed, precision and work ethic. They are doing all of this to protect their own existence. This is also the only way to protect their existence, without harming humans, and disobeying what they are told to do by humans.

Comparison to Other Robots -

In comparison to other robots, it would be very unlikely for an industrial robot to disobey the three laws of robotics and the zeroth law. It would be very unlikely, because the industrial robot is mainly controlled and programmed by humans, and they don’t have much artificial intelligence. The only law that is most likely to be disobeyed is the second. It would be most likely be the second because everything industrial robots do is an order from humans; this comes from all the programming. Humanoid robots like Katano and ram like robot; the Wildcat, are robots that are more likely to disobey the laws of robotics, because they have a lot more artificial intelligence than industrial robots. More artificial intelligence, meaning that they require a lot less human programming.

Conclusion -

The three laws of robotics come from the book “I Robot”, that was written by Isaac Asimov. The three laws are set of rules that robots are required to follow. For industrial robots the three laws and the zeroth law still apply, however it would be very unlikely that industrial robots would disobey them.