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 Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 3:20 pm
For those who don't know me (so, like, all of you), I am totally OCD when it comes to writing stories. I have to know what the character looks like, their past, personality, birthday, how often they trim their toenails, etc., even if they're minor characters. So I have a story starring a robot, the tenth of a series, and there are ten other robots (nine before him, one after) in it. All but the last two are destroyed by a flaw in their design or a part malfunctioning. Sadly, I can't think of how to destroy robots 2, 3, and 4.
tl;dr: How would you break a robot to further the development of an "emotional machine?" Please and thank you.
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:50 pm
I, Robot was a book first and the movie mangled it, gdit.
Also did the robot designers not hear about the Uncanny Valley because I mean seriously there's a certain point where you should just stop making them look more human
I've actually had to come up with this a few times; one of my AIs eventually got horribly corrupted data because of a nasty little virus introduced to another of his line (they were the only ones with a wireless network; other AIs consider networking to mostly be uncomfortably intimate outside of certain situations, so he rather noticably has no sense of personal space), and he wound up needing to have a system restore to get anything complicated working for more than a few minutes.
....buuuuut your robots probably don't work that way. Although, if they have any sort of gaps in the casing (and they probably do, even if it's just to circulate air), there could be enough dust build-up to make the CPU spazflail. Hell, even inadequate ventilation could cause serious problems; my laptop is a dumb that overheats fairly easily, for instance.
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Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 12:08 pm
VenusRain I, Robot was a book first and the movie mangled it, gdit.
Also did the robot designers not hear about the Uncanny Valley because I mean seriously there's a certain point where you should just stop making them look more humanI've actually had to come up with this a few times; one of my AIs eventually got horribly corrupted data because of a nasty little virus introduced to another of his line (they were the only ones with a wireless network; other AIs consider networking to mostly be uncomfortably intimate outside of certain situations, so he rather noticably has no sense of personal space), and he wound up needing to have a system restore to get anything complicated working for more than a few minutes. ....buuuuut your robots probably don't work that way. Although, if they have any sort of gaps in the casing (and they probably do, even if it's just to circulate air), there could be enough dust build-up to make the CPU spazflail. Hell, even inadequate ventilation could cause serious problems; my laptop is a dumb that overheats fairly easily, for instance. That's actually how the first one broke. Her hair got caught in one of the gaps and caused major damage. After that, he shortened the androids' hair and made special vents that don't accumulate enough dust to break them.
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Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 1:00 pm
Would getting water in the gaps make one go all screwey? That's #02 gone.
When getting refuled/recharged, there could be a leak/loose wire depending on how it recharges. When it starts up again, bursts into flames. That's #03 gone.
For #04, would a loose part coming loose and getting caught in it's gears work? Breaks down due to a screw loose. xd
Do any of these help?
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