# Robot citizenship! The future is NOW! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 26, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-citizenship-the-future-is-now/799927 "2017-10-26T22:41:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-citizenship-the-future-is-now/799927/1 "2017-10-26T22:41:55Z")
See [here](http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/saudi-arabia-robot-sophia-citizenship-android-riyadh-citizen-passport-future-a8021601.html). Saudi Arabia has become the first country to give a robot citizenship. So besides all the other human rights abuses brought up in the article, the real burning question is… Can this robot citizen qualify for a boat loan? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-citizenship-the-future-is-now/799927/2 "2017-10-27T00:27:06Z")
She needs the permission of her RoboHusband to get a loan. And it’s one of those loans that’s de jure not a loan to keep it halal. They can do that if they want, but I think if we do that over here the Robot should change its foreign Czech name into something more American. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2017, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-citizenship-the-future-is-now/799927/3 "2017-10-27T01:45:33Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > They can do that if they want, but I think if we do that over here the Robot should change its foreign Czech name into something more American. _Austrian_. We gave citizenship to a robot with the _Austrian_ name ‘Schwarzenegger’. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2017, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-citizenship-the-future-is-now/799927/4 "2017-10-27T02:11:04Z")
Not sure if whoosh or not but > **[Robot | Etymology](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot#Etymology)** > > The word robot was introduced to the public by the Czech interwar writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), published in 1920. The play begins in a factory that uses a chemical substitute for protoplasm to manufacture living, simplified people called robots. The play does not focus in detail on the technology behind the creation of these living creatures, but in their appearance they prefigure modern ideas of androids, creatures who can be mistaken for humans. These ma Ka... ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2017, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-citizenship-the-future-is-now/799927/5 "2017-10-27T11:35:55Z")
But if they were thinking of granting citizenship to any of Mom’s robots (particularly one Bender Bending Rodriguez), they would run into a rather thorny conundrum: those robots are fueled by _ **liquor** _!! How could they have a citizen that **must** keep constantly drunk to be able to work?!