memeo23-++Hegemonic+Backdrops

Memo23: Hegemonic Backdrops
=//1- ////Psychological and emotional problems in the post modern world are pushing robotic engineers toward inventing anthropomorphous robots //. = =//2- ////Desires toward saving money and time in psychiatric measures are leading the tendency of using anthropomorphous robots in psychological clinics. //= =//3- ////The recent developments in designing and programming robots based on the customer’s needs could be generalized to the same desires in the psychological clinics. //= = Advanced technologies especially robots are the auspicious gift of the contemporary world especially anthropomorphous robots which can be prerogatives of people with some common psychological disorders such as for lonely persons. Such robots have lessened the burden of loneliness as a result people who are exhausted of loneliness can relax in the sofa and enjoy accompanying with his /her human like robot. For example Reuters’ report on June 2008 titled “Japan makes robot girlfriend for lonely men” (1) can prove that robots can help people who are fed up with relationships with real people and who may have social problems in their personal and emotional life. = Not only robots can be used for common emotional and psychological disorders such as depression and feel of loneliness, they may be useful for recovering the social and emotional malfunctions of individuals with severe psychological disorders as the case of using robots for Autism prove this reality. Using robots for personal and emotional goals are more efficient as they can save a great deal of money and time. For example, in my project, using robots for psychiatric functions may hasten the treatment process of schizophrenic patients especially whom are abandoned by their families. So improving the quality of psychiatric treatments by using advanced technologies such as personified robots can be an efficient substitute or supplement for persons unable to pay the expensive costs of drugs or medicines. On the other hand, one of the problems with the schizophrenia is that because of the nature of this disorder and some undesired side effects of taking medicine, some of them deny taking prescribed medications. So families are seeking for psychiatric measures as effective as they could be. Using anthropomorphous robots may lead to this goal. Anthropomorphous robots can be beneficial means for controlling and monitoring the psychological malfunctions especially in an era that the number of individuals with psychological and emotional problems is increasing. So I will argue in my project that in contrary to all common senses, robots would alter the shape and form of psychiatric measures in psychological clinics to a more efficient recovery process either in time or money. On the other hand, robotic designers and programmers can create robots based on customers’ needs and desires. On December 2008, news announced 33 Japanese’s inventor who designed a female robot looks like his ideal girl friend. “I want to make her look, feel and act as human as possible so she can be the perfect companion,” said Le Trung and continues that “I'm ordering a LATIN POOL BOY ROBOT model that looks like Enrique Iglesias”(2) So advanced technologies have made creating and inventing robots looks like to what we desire or need, as close to our wishes as possible. This capability of robots is a crucial advantage. Schizophrenic patients have many problems in their social and communication life, designing a robot as close as to their needs can have a great impact on their recovery. For example, most families and friends of people with schizophrenia are baffled of best ways of responding to schizophrenic people when they talk based on their hallucinations which are untrue in real world but real and not fantasy based on their bizarre beliefs or the best ways of making communications with them, which all can be solved by designing and programming a robot more similar to what a schizophrenic patient or a psychiatrist desires.

1- http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUST8462420080617 2- http://estergoldberg.typepad.com/views_from_a_broad/2008/12/man-lives-with-female-robot-only-in-japan.html