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# 4. Robots vs. humans

Superintelligence[^1]¹² and sentience in robots will give rise to a blurring of lines between what constitutes a robot entity vs. what constitutes a human being. Robots that achieve sentience can be called Senbots — short for 'sentient robots', and it will become ever harder to distinguish a senbot from a human. The Futura Robotica section introduces the sentience equation and a novel test for sentience in robotica.

However there will always remain a key distinction between the two:

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### Humans are born[^2]¹³ through biological means, while robots are constructed[^3]¹⁴ entities.

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This distinction will always prove to differentiate a robot from a human.

If there should ever be a future where robots are born through biological means, they shall no longer be considered of the nature of robotica but rather of the nature of biotica.

[^1]: Bostrom, Nick. *Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies*. Oxford University Press, 2014.

[^2]: Hippocrates. "On the Nature of the Child." *Hippocratic Writings*, edited by G. E. R. Lloyd, translated by J. Chadwick and W. N. Mann, Penguin Classics, 1983, pp. 428-467.

[^3]: von Braun, Joachim, et al., editors. "Differences Between Natural and Artificial Cognitive Systems." *Robotics, AI, and Humanity: Science, Ethics, and Policy*, 1st ed., Springer International Publishing, 2021, p. 92.