Originally posted by Viket & Yuumi:

lets pretend robots is actually a reality and they just release some betas that do laundry or just do stuff in you house really slow but do it what they can

what if you gave its own computer and teach it to play a game like team fortress 2 or counter strike? he gets vac banned since is an automated player? or the rule wouldnt apply to a robot? like a legit robot, no cheats, not the computer playing with an ai code, a legit build robot

The robot would still need a code so in the end there is always AI involved.

On a side note, your question is centuries old, what you call robot, they called "automaton" in the 18th century.

Check out the wikipedia entry for the "Mechanical Turk", an alleged chess-playing automaton constructed in 1770(!):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk

A true story and a fascinating read.

Nothing would happen. "Automated players" already exist. They're usually referred to as "bots". A server operator can add them at any moment, as long as they're even coded in.

A real robot would have been regarded as a regular player since no tools can detect who is actually sitting behind the desk.

Cheat-like behavior wouldn't likely be ever reached by said robot due to necessity of utilizing actual physical movement to move mouse around, press keys, and just like us - perceiving action through monitor and speakers/headphones.

Assuming the robot is connected to the PC, then as long as an anti-cheat solution is programmed to scan and recognize connect peripherals (or in this case - robots), the account would quickly get banned.

Originally posted by Patroh:

Nothing would happen. "Automated players" already exist. They're usually referred to as "bots". A server operator can add them at any moment, as long as they're even coded in.

A real robot would have been regarded as a regular player since no tools can detect who is actually sitting behind the desk.

Cheat-like behavior wouldn't likely be ever reached by said robot due to necessity of utilizing actual physical movement to move mouse around, press keys, and just like us - perceiving action through monitor and speakers/headphones.

Assuming the robot is connected to the PC, then as long as an anti-cheat solution is programmed to scan and recognize connect peripherals (or in this case - robots), the account would quickly get banned.

nah i talking about fully learning no tools no nothing just the robot self ai, and lets say you re streaming this for study how the robot works and learn about games, would that be reportable or not? since is playing on oficial valve servers

is nothing real or possible yet but i always wondered that since i see way too often that thing of "tesla bots"

AI is not a magic spell capable of learning and doing everything thrown on it on a whim.

Even AlphaStar (StarCraft 2) took at least half a year to reach grandmaster level of play.

Considering you are talking of a robot with hands modeled after human hands, and they would have the ability to create their own steam account without any outside assistants with said hands, and used said hands to play a VAC enabled game, I believe they would not be breaking any VAC rules or EULA steam rules because I don't believe it is mentioned anywhere in the EULA that you must be "human" to have a steam account.