Worst Nightmares.. for ROBOTS!

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Ok, I think wrenches are a robot's worst nightmare. I've heard other people say radically different things.

What is a robot's worst nightmare?
 

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  • EMP(electromagnetic pulse): These will shut down most electronics not protected in a faraday cage and often fry some components to the point of being inoperable. These are also relatively easy to produce in a limited capacity which makes them a decent idea for a weapon in games featuring robots too.
  • Logical paradoxes: cliche but still funny.
  • Asimov's 3 laws of robotics maybe?
I kind of disagree with the wrench idea, yes it could be used to dismantle machines but it can also be used in building/repairing them. I think it along with most other tools would be more akin to a robot's version of medicine than its worst nightmare, something that can both heal and maim. Then again I suffer from Iatrophobia myself so perhaps nightmare isn't too far off at that. :p
 

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Water because logic,
breadcrumbs because it clogs the ventilation system of the robot,
hydrochloric acid because we want to be sadistic to robots,
deleting Windows 10 on the robot and installing Windows ME,
corrupt the drivers of the robot,
maybe some virusses or malware slows it down,
disassemble body parts like legs and arms so it can't move,
wrap a tie around the robot then hang it behind your car and drive a good 120 mph.
 

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Robots fear the 80's?
Being reduced to serving drinks and birthday cakes?
 

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Yeah, a wrench can be used to help robots. For example, it can help to tighten some of the bolts and nuts which are going loose. Saves them from losing an arm or a leg!

I think any way of becoming outdated, useless, or obsolete would be a nightmare for them.

Of course also all the elements that can mess them up, as mentioned by others, such as water or EMP. Imagine a robot in a heavy rain. Although, I think when designing a robot that would work outside or anywhere near water, you'd design them in a way to have waterproof and protected outer casings, so that water doesn't get inside their circuits.

I think a sentient robot's huge nightmare would also be to be treated as an inferior being, someone who is deemed to be beneath humans and not having a will of their own, not being given any rights and freedoms because "they're just a machine" to some people.

How about being dismantled and taken apart? A human will get a quick death if they were to be dismembered or decapitated, but a robot might not. How horrible would it be to feel helpless, just having your head rolling on the floor and not being able to help yourself. *remembers that C3PO scene from Attack of the Clones*
 

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What makes you think robots even have nightmares? Fine, let's assume they do for the sake of this discussion. What would a robot fear? To answer that, you must first ask yourself what you fear, but most importantly, why you fear it. A given organism on this planet "fears" (or at least generally tries to avoid) anything that will kill it. Since "survive at all costs" is the primary directive of all life on this planet, anything that threatens this primary directive could realistically be considered "nightmare fuel."

But with robots, things get complicated. A robot's "fear" (or rather, thing it might take steps to avoid) could be seen as similar to our own, as in anything that interferes with its primary directive. That's where the similarity ends though, as this primary directive is in most cases going to be quite different, depending on what the robot was created for. A robot designed to regulate the temperature of a building by keeping it around 70 degrees will do anything within its capability to fulfill this directive. It won't try to stop you from punching it in the face because survival is not its concern--regulating the temperature is. Depending on how advanced its AI is, it might conclude that "survival" is important for "keeping the temperature below 70." However, it wouldn't "fear" things that can kill it like it might "fear" being unable to control an extreme temperature spike.

Ultimately though, it's important to not anthropomorphize robots and AI. All we have to do is take a look at things alive today to gain an idea of how radically different intelligence can be--see the octopus for example. AI "fears" might not actually be fears at all, but rather, things it takes into consideration and makes calculated moves in order to avoid, but that's it.
 

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This makes me think of Kino's Journey. While not technically robot, but you can talk to motorrad. And their worst nightmare was not being used and locked up in garage with no one ride them.
 

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Robots worse nightmare - no directive ( Borrow idea from Wall-E) All robots had something they did. it didn't matter if it was trash collecting or saving mankind or painting. A robot without a directive was basically "Rogue" or "Malfunctioned" I could see a robot become irrational if their directive was removed or they could not accomplish it even when given the task. isn't that why the main computer in I:Robot went crazy. It had no authority to save lives but was given directives to save lives. It went mad and tried to take over everything. I have to go with "No Directive" or a "Useless Existence"
 

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Being reprogrammed against their will.

Hacks. Hackers by extension.

Becoming obsolete.
 

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