27 years ago! On June 24, 1986, I publicly billed myself as the ‘World’s First Robotic Psychiatrist®’. I always thought that ‘Robotic Psychiatry’ for my lifetime, would be informing and educating the masses in a humorous and entertaining manner while slowly readying them for the more serious issues and implications of a robotic society. I also thought that someday Robotic Psychiatry (as Asimov envisioned it) would be a real field of study. Perhaps this would occur when I was no longer alive (posthumously), but now I’m realizing that it will be within my lifetime (or at least post-Singularity). Imagine that
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gynecoids
I emailed a mutual contact of Japanese professor Hiroshi Ishiguro and mine to see if Prof Ishiguro was staying on in the States after his presentation in NY. I just had to meet both him and his Geminoids. I know from inviting Prof Ishiguro a few years ago for the biennial International Robot Show that due to a bad back, he rarely travels, and if he does, it must be first class. Add to that the cost of a robot to ship from Japan, and unfortunately that wasn’t in the show budget (but quite easy for Dmitry Itskov). I did
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depressed robot
My patient Cy’s (short for Cyborg) depression stemmed from a feeling of low self-esteem and paranoia. He felt that because he was a robot, humans would constantly stare at him. A robot/human integration program was recommended whereby slowly, daily human-like functions were performed in public to help build acceptance. Things are progressing well for Cy, who is now a Florida resident living at Century Village. He has not been granted the right to vote yet. However, he knows his right to vote won’t matter in the State of Florida anyway.
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