RoboBlessing

RoboBlessing

Sunday, December 1, 2019
| Psalm 122

Yes, Jesus loves you; robot tells you so.

Robots have been around for a while. A long while. At least the concept of robots. The ancient Greeks and Egyptians had visions of artificial companions, servants and soldiers. Dragon’s teeth might be sown in a field and soldiers would pop up to defend the gods. Vulcan forged handmaidens out of gold. And so on.

In recent history, robots have also captured the imagination of us mortals. Slowly, mechanical servants have become a part of our mundane lives. Machines wash our clothes and dishes with little human interaction. Robots have been programmed to work in factories and have replaced the human worker on many assembly lines.

In the 1950s, humanoid robots usually looked like tin men and had a funnel or colander on their heads.

The Star Wars franchise brought to the screen the most lovable robots of all time: R2-D2 and C-3PO.

RoboCop (1987, 2014) generated debate as to the extent that robots could replace humans in vital roles. Thirty years after the 1987 movie, robocops are...


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