Afraid of a Robot Uprising? METI Guidelines Will Keep You Safe

Posted May 22, 2006 at 2:33PM EST by Ryan F.

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Are you afraid of a robot uprising in the near future? Are you building a shelter under your house to stockpile food and ammo so you'll be safe when rampant robots come to get you? If so then you can set down the shovel and cancel that order of freeze-dried food because METI (the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) officials are setting guidelines that all robots will have to follow in the future. Although the guidelines won't be completed until the end of the year they have been said to include the following:

1. All robots must have ample sensors to minimize the rick of robots running into people (accidentally that is, these sensors may simply help them hit their targets)
2. Robots must be made of soft, lightweight materials (so they won't hurt you on their first strike)
3. All robots must have an emergency shut-off switch installed (it's the only real way to make sure they won't attack again)

These are the first standards for robots outside the ones already in place for factory and production line robots. Calls for regulations have been on the rise because next-generation robots may be more common due to labor shortages (specifically in Japan).

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