Elena Soto The Rise Of The Robot Pet Analysis

The Generation of Technology Technology keeps advancing and every time it does it keeps pushing people away from each other. Technology is a great thing humans made as in helping people and the world all together, but it does have its flaws. In addition, It has brought advances to science! It has also caused loneliness. The art of technology brings the feeling of being ignored, lack of responsibility, and separation from others.
Fixing problems is what humans do. This is exactly what Japan did. In the article, “The rise of the Robot Pet,” by Elena Soto, it tells a story of finding an answer to a problem by using robots.There are not enough young people to take care of the elderly in Japan . So, Japan made a robotic seal named paro that helps …show more content…
“Many children get their first experience with responsibility by caring for a pet” (Mullin). For example, children learn responsibility by picking up poop, walking the dog, and giving the dog a bath. They do not learn the same and more effective responsibility by charging the battery or fixing a wire. In addition, later in life those children will have to change diapers to their child and give their child a bath. Children are going to think responsibility is making sure the robot dog’s battery does not die, while fetching the ball. How will that help them later in life? Learning to feed a real dog will help later on to take care of others. Next, a child can just throw away or stuff in the back of the closet if he does not want the robot anymore as Soto describes, “... when a child gets bored with his pet, he can stuff it in the back of his closet and forget about it?” (Soto). People may say that in this generation that is how the children are going to learn responsibility, but people now can start to prevent it. Having a robot pet is very different than a real pet. All that time playing with the robot pet is just less time being with people and more time hanging out with a