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Hyphenation 3

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Hyphenation 3

Hyphenation 3

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Please refer to thread1010-155641: Hyphenation (Part 2)

I was reading an article today, and was confused about the hyphenation.

"The country plans to build two robot theme parks by 2013 and even drafted a "Robot Ethics Code" last year to prevent robot-human abuse."

Are they talking about abuse committed by robots on humans, or abuse by humans on robots?  It seems to me they could have just left off the "-human".

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RE: Hyphenation 3

Shouldn't they just implement Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics?

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MadMango,

I'd say "yes" -  both.

And I agree with GrahamBennett.

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As from 1985 there were four laws of robotics.

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Thank you 25362 I'd quite forgotten about the zeroth law.

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