Borut Povse, a Slovenian researcher, has developed a robot the that has the ability to punch people. The robot formerly worked on a coffee machine assembly line. Six men volunteered to be punching bags for the robot. They were punched in the arm about 18 times, and told to rate the punches on a scale of mild to unbearable. Most punches were rated mild to moderate. The purpose of Povse's experiment was to see how robots keep themselves from harming humans and to see how fast a robot can be moving when it senses that it is near a human and still avoid a collision.
I do not believe that robots should be programmed to punch people. If they have this ability, someone can steal the technology and use it to wreak havoc. This ability could also ruin people's perceptions of robots. Many people view technology and robots as evil, as seen in the book, I, Robot. If they believed that robots could go berserk and start punching people, they could lose all faith in the good of technology. Robots should also serve a useful purpose. Punching people is not a useful purpose.
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