This article came out last month: http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/09/17/emotional-attachme...
I wonder how this will affect robot operators when their "avatar" comes under threat..?
I wonder how this will affect robot operators when their "avatar" comes under threat..?
I know those guys in Spain: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEDAX
They mainly deactivate bombs from the Spanish Civil war and from terrorist organizations like ETA.
Of course you are seriously affected when your robot is destroyed. Those things are really expensive. You will have to spend a significant effort replacing it, and it takes some work to make a machine operative so of course you are pissed off like anybody will be is their car paint is scratched by a key.