4. Robots vs. humans

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:

Humans are ¹³ through biological means, while robots are ¹⁴ entities.

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.