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Those examples are unlikely to kill you. A humanoid robot can. Let's say it quickly moves its arm on a collision course with your head. The arm can weigh around 10 kg. The impact can easily kill an adult.

I'm a bit less pessimistic than OP. It's possible to run safety checks (e.g. collision avoidance) on a lower, deterministic level, and use generative, black box, 'AI' for higher-level planning.




Why would it move quickly? There is zero reason for a humanoid home robot to move quickly.


The definition of "quickly" for roboticists are different from how it's usually interpreted. I'm not a real one, but to me it seems this tree of comments contain couple more such definition disagreements.


Well in this case move quickly enough to hit and injure a person.


Like animals the robot arm should also be compliment and not always be moving with full force because it is going to hit things even with active collision avoidance.


A lead filled baseball bat flying through space is always moving at full force unless some external force is applied.




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