Funerals for Fallen Robots - Megan Garber

“In the heat of battle, and in the chaos of war zones, soldiers, it seems, tend to humanize their robotic aides. They develop emotional attachments to the machines that put themselves in harm’s way so the humans don’t have to.

That’s according to research conducted by Julie Carpenter, a researcher at the University of Washington who studies the emotional relationships that humans can develop with machines.”

►https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/funerals-for-fallen-robots/279861

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Funerals for Fallen Robots - Megan Garber - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/funerals-for-fallen-robots/279861

When Boomer was lost on the battlefield in Taji, Iraq, his brothers in arms gave him a funeral. The tribute involved a 21-gun salute, and the awarding of both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star Medal. All in recognition, according to a soldier who has worked with Boomer’s comrades, of Boomer’s heroism and of the many lives he had saved on the battlefield.

It was a funeral that was typical in every way but one: Boomer was a machine.

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