End of life Machine ...scary inventions now a days JAZZVU3R: Last Moment Robot Will Comfort You Before You Die (VIDEO) You lie in the hospital bed, your heartbeat weak, your breath faint. Old age has conquered you: You can feel throughout your body that you are going to die, and you resign yourself to the inevitable. You let your eyelids fall for a final time, preparing to pass on to the next life, when suddenly, a little white robot appears at your bedside, hovering over you. "Hello," the robot says to you, gently caressing your forearm with its cold, metallic hand. "I am the Last Moment Robot. I am here to help you and guide you through your last moment on earth." "I am sorry that your family and friends can’t be with you right now, but don’t be afraid. I am here to comfort you." So begins an art installation by Dan Chen, which invites visitors to check in a faux-hospital, slip under the covers of a replica hospital bed, and receive the end-of-life comfort from a 'bot that Chen has dubbed "Last Moment Robot." The Last Moment Robot lovingly strokes the expiring patient's arm, assures the patient, in a pre-recorded speech, that he or she is not alone, and then, after expiration, reads off the time-of-death for the doctor. JAZZVU3R: yeah huh...id rather have a living soul next to me holdin me and rubbing my arm than a cold machine DA_NAME'S_DOING: And then there will be robots among us. Then there will be microchips implanted in us. And then our flesh will be metal and wires. And by then we will be one of them, robots. .... | Technology Chat Room Similar Conversations |