Humanoid robot DEFENDS ’personal space’

Ameca, the world’s most advanced humanoid android fitted with cutting-edge AI, wants you to keep your hands to yourself. Developed by UK-based tech company Engineered Arts, the robot has been called the ‘future face of robotics’ and ‘the perfect humanoid robot platform for human-robot interaction.’ One video provided by the engineers shows the robot reacting as things enter its ‘personal space.’ According to the developers, even they were ‘freaked out’ by the machine’s behavior. Serious question: If robots now have ‘personal space’, isn’t it technically androidal space? The ethics here seem to be getting blurry.