What the future holds.

In the episode Black Mirror we saw the effects of grieving the death of a loved one and futuristic robot technology and one variant of what this combination could potentially entail. While Ash2 had all of Ash1’s online information and the recorded memories of his life. He was lacking some of the most important things from Ash1’s personality like how to react to certain things his girlfriend would do or say. While they were speaking over the phone while in the field she recounts when she first met Ash’s mother and trip to Greece. And also we see her get, in my opinion to attached to the voice in the phone when her phone breaks at the doctors office because she freaks out and thinks she loses him again. But once she hears about the “kind of  experimental”  technology that “isn’t cheap” she jumps head over heels for it and immediately purchases it. Yet she is even a little scared of the body when she opens the box. Ash2 and the girlfriend have a cheery beginning yet it begins to unfold when she realizes he doesn’t have the exact same reactions the Ash1 would have like breathing when they go to sleep for example she asked Ash2 to breathe normally one night then she didn’t like it because she said it was forced. I believe the doubt really set in for her was when Ash got glass in his hand yet he didn’t bleed or feel pain even before the breathing incident which happened after the glass and the same night when Ash2 didn’t argue to stay in the same bed as the girlfriend like Ash1 would have. He even mentions that the reason he looks like Ash1 “on a good day” is because people only keep the flattering photos of themselves. Ash2 doesn’t fear death until he researches what fearing death actually is he also can not go farther than 25 meters away from the bathtub with out his ‘owner’, so in my opinion he isn’t that close to a real person consciously from the very beginning because he can’t truly be independent from the start as if he’s bound to her in more ways than we are shown in the episode. As a mechanical engineering major one of the fields of study we may pursue is robotics. And I am particularly interested in this field. I have worked with robots for a couple of years now with The First Robotics Competition, which is a national competition that requires a team to build a robot to play a particular game. I have not done much work with the coding though and neither of the two robots required any form of higher thinking because they were remote controlled. I’m actually hoping that robots will not be able to do this in the future because I think many people could misuse the type of technology.