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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Another silly idea: Humanoid robots with outside-accessible off switches (Data, C3PO, etc). Shouldn't they, at least, be difficult to find or activate? Who needs a robot that can be easily turned off, by accident or on purpose, in a tight situation? The whole "this thing is deadly, but if you can hit it just here, that will shut it off" trope is insanely stoopid.
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I would consider an accessible off switch to be a requirement for a robot - no one has created non-buggy software yet, and a robot could go crazy at any second. Or at least that's what all the stories tell me.
It also depends on purpose - you wouldn't want a security robot being deactivated by an intruder for example, but a more general purpose robot could be easy to shut down without impacting its usefulness.