They should make a real Astro Boy

[fafner]

oh no it's not a screen it was an actually robot on a stand

Yes I know, but it was an image. The robot was programmed to mimic humans, not to be an actual human, and that's exactly what is said in your first link. Leave the robot alone and it will sit doing nothing as soon as it has finished exploring the room. Most humans would try to occupy their minds after doing so.

So far, robots lack a goal beyond mimicking.

[racoonangel]

Speaking in which Astro boy would be a challenge in making in our time we don't have all the technologies to make him such as rockets boots, if you think about it he would run out of fuel easily in real life, like a jet pack it runs out of fuel. What else can power his jet boots besides fuel. It is improbable that battery power will power it like in the episodes. Another thing that is improbable to create is his laser beam, the reason I saw that because it is impossible to shoot plasma in a straight beam, scientist have tested it. ( it was an experiement to see if we could invent laser beam like in star wars)

With are technologies today we are advancing very quickly considering. I know creating Astro boy would be very difiicult and highly improbable in our time. If we go through every scientific possibe way they may be able to find ways to create an artificial brain like Astro's. His power source would have to be some sort of strong energy source. He would need something to recharge himself. As a power source I don't think he would have a hatch with a fake looking heart if we possibly created him. His artificial skin would be rubber maybe. Any other ideas on what is possible on creating him without going completly scientific here?

[Solarcat20]

i wouldn't mind if they made a real astro boy

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

I gave some thought to the technology involved, what is available today, and what could be available in the future based on known theory. I've posted a fan fiction on this site that contained some of that. Power? Cold fusion has been hotly debated (sorry about the pun), but there is some solid theory behind it to back it up. Based on the required nuclear bonds and energy levels a possible fusion power source would be a reaction involving a Helium-3 isotope that could directly produce electrical power without producing much heat or radiation. We have no idea HOW to build such a thing but the math says it might work. Such a power plant might be very small and yet produce as much energy as a string of locomotives.

High voltage electricity can strip electrons out of their orbits and produce a form of matter known as plasma. By exploiting attraction of oppositely charged ions and the repulsion of similarly charged ones a reaction engine (IE: Jet or Rocket) can be built. Dyson's blade-less fan uses this principle. NASA has built a low thrust ion rocket that accelerates a nobel gas which can operate for long durations using little fuel. It has been used on deep space satellites. In theory such an engine could be built that acts as a ram jet pushing air though it to develop a lot of thrust. A nuclear powered version of this was proposed in the 50's as part of "project Pluto" to build a doomsday cruse missile to deliver dozens of nuclear bombs over different targets. (I am NOT making this up!).

Building a computer small and powerful enough to emulate the processing power of the human brain isn't quite there yet. A totally different kind of computer that uses quantum physics instead of ones and zeros to define logic states is actually in existence. They have the potential to yield a huge leap in processing power in a small space. Emulating the neural pathways of the brain in software is now possible. In the near future we might be able to download someone's 'brain program' and memories and actually duplicate his or her consciousness and self awareness, almost like cloning someones soul. This is actually what Dr. Tenma did in the Astro Boy movie, though he got Tobo's memory from the DNA in a strand of hair. I don't think that is or ever will be possible.

[racoonangel]

yeah obtaining memories from one strand of hair is impossible you would need a whole half of a brain to obtain all those memories.

Alright I put some thought into this so to create a arficial brain my thought was would need some sort of device that could hold memories like a computer never forgets things, but eventually a computer gets full, and you have to delete stuff, am I right?

So then I was thinking if they invented some sort of program in a tiny computer that automatically takes images through a tiny camers ( his eyes of course) if would be like our own brain except this computer would need masses of space in it in order to accomplish this. Speaking in which about astro's eyes you know how they invented tiny camera's to look inside a human body well, if you were to create a realistic looking eye you would need a camera in that size as the puple, and putting a contact lenses over it giving the eye shape.....

[fafner]

A totally different kind of computer that uses quantum physics instead of ones and zeros to define logic states is actually in existence. They have the potential to yield a huge leap in processing power in a small space.

Quantum computers aren't inheritenly more powerful than traditional computers. They merely have other capabilities such as the possibility to do integer factorization in a direct way, that traditional computers can do but not in a reasonable time (thousands of years even for "small" integers). This alone gives the possibility to break modern cryptography while just expanding the keys should keep traditional computers at bay.