For doing some physical actions robots are being made, and they are performing some jobs in industries. But this term humanoid and making them with emotions really make me furious sometime.

There are dolls available in market those can weep. cry and laughs and can make us emotional, but does not mean these dolls are emotional them self,

Just by feeding electric signals and operating some devices don't make them intelligent and emotional, which some of scientist keep on claiming.

No matter how fast a computer and robot may be,It can not replace human brain AtLeast with current technologies,They are fast, they are precise, they can do many jobs simultaneously, But they can not learn (at least so far), they are not intelligent and don't have any emotions at all. its just a machine. So don't get emotional about them. If its worn and not performing its a junk.

Unfortunately worn humans are also often considerd as junk. Then where is the difference?

How about if your statement is written by a robot. I am sure he would have missed that word "unfortunately"(it shows your emotions), and thats the diffrence.

However your statement is true.

This statement is written by a robot.

Hi Robot Slack,

Do you behave according to Assimov's laws of robotics?

this"" is against the spirit of a robot .

Primarily cost and upkeep! One could also cite response to emotions, the ability to teach, fear of mortality and so on.

I had to fire mine - it was stealing the silverware.

well that makes sense that like if you programme it to say certain things it can envoke emotions in humans, making us think that it's THEM that has the emotion. and LOL to your robot being a theif d=

Yes it can be programed undoubtedly, But after that am sure it can not think of what he(robot) is going to do with those stolen items and thats where its faills to replace human.

I've often puzzled over why people are striving to create human-like artificial intelligence. To what end? It's not that I have a fear of such devices. In fact I would probably have respect (and perhaps pity) for them. But I can't fathom why anyone would wish to bother.

For example, it doesn't matter if our hospital robot nurse "cares" about its patient. In fact it's better if it doesn't so it won't be "tempted" to go beyond its necessarily-strict treatment instructions.

If I wish to have a discussion with a being that isn't quite human in order to get its opinion on things, there are more than enough humans who fall far enough outside the norm to meet that definition. One doesn't need to create a simulation - one just needs to walk to certain parts of New York City.

I can understand making a device which is capable of interpreting and interacting with its environment in great detail. But to introduce actual emotions seems detrimental to almost any task at hand. And of course there would be the ethical dilemma of what to do when it became necessary to one day dispose of such a being.

Giving a robot emotions, and the ability to be intelligent, would be giving the robot the same flaws that have cause humans to kill others and themselves for things such as religion. Lets keep robots as our hard (non-complaining, non-"the grass is greener", non-rebelling) workers, in our plants and factories. They can serve a purpose, but will never be a good psychiatrist.