Futuristic Robotic Theft. How much does your machine know you? How much do you know your machine?

Note: This is a futuristic scenario; there are no robots on the streets as of now.

How much does your machine know you?

And how much do you know your machine?

Imagine you lost your robot/machine in a mall or while crossing the road to the airport. You took away someone else’s robot/machine, and someone else took away your machine.

When would you find out about it?

How would you recognise it?

Would your machine tell you this?

Or would you tell this?

All machines, such as robotic dogs and drones, look alike, mostly all made by the same company looks same. All robots from a fleet of robots look alike.

You would find it out or you would keep giving orders to your robots, only to find that the coffee was too sweet?

Or you would find out that your robot is calling you “Boss” instead of your name, as you suggested!

Then you are in a dilemma about how to find your robot and return it to its owner.

This is futuritic schenario.

Does your robot know who you are?

Does your machine know who you are?

Consider a laptop, which can be determined by the wallpaper you use, the folders on the desktop, the order of files, and the storage of files.

But a robot you bought from a mall, or a machine such as a robotic dog or drone that came with you, how would that know who you are?

Are we training our machines and robots to know their owners?

And do the owners know their robots and machines?

Do we have an option to set a welcome tag as a wallpaper on the robot’s screen?

Do we have voice choices for robots, our personalizations on robots, so that we can instantly know if the robot is stolen or has been changed intentionally or by mistake?

Does the robot have the capability to scan the owner and tell their name?

Does the robot recognise the owner?

Robots need to perform image recognition of the owner and his/her home in these settings?

If we start adding these features now, they will come to robotics in the future.

A robot must recognize the owner’s voice tone, facial expressions, body language, and specific words.

And the robot must not follow commands from someone outside a friendly circle of the owner. This is a must to avoid robotic theft, a reality that can hit us.

But robotic theft can be prevented by implementing simple image and voice recognition systems.

At the same time, the owner can change the robot’s screen to make it more visible for quick recognition.

A robot need not look the same. Why does a factory look to all robots? Why not give each robot in a fleet a distinct look, with different hair colors, heights, and weights?

Other things that can work are asking the robot to tell last day’s stories or tell how much sugar you take in your coffee.

Robots are costly machines, and they in future will carry a lot of sensitive data of the owner; hence, robotic thefts must be avoided in the future.

Machines must be secured with other kinds of security as well, such as passwords, fingerprints, and viva, among other security protocols.

Robots must be trained not to hear orders from non-owners or the non-friendly circle of owners.

Robotic theft can cause a lot of problems, one of which is the loss of your personalization data, passwords, and preferences.

Let’s keep robotics safe in the coming future.