The Importance Of Robots

Robots can effect employment in a negative way,as said by the author Kelly “It may be hard to believe… 70 percent of today’s occupation will likewise be replaced by automation...even you will have your job taken away by machines”(Kelly Page.300), this quote comes to show the negative aspect of robots taking over the world in the near

In the essay “Better than Human” Kevin Kelly states his thesis hat robots will someday replace humans in the work place. Kelly starts by explaining how the Industrial Revolution has changed the way manual labor is performed as a result of automation; replacing humans with machines. Kelly says that the increasing demand for automation, artificial intelligence has given machines the ability to manage tasks from “manual labor to knowledge work.” (300) Kelly then says that robots will begin to replace blue and white collar jobs such as, assembly, heavy lifting, analytical, and medical applications. Kelly explains the innovative breakthrough named Baxter, a robot typically made for industrial applications

We think of computers as being incredibly intelligent now, but actually in terms of brain power an average computer today has the intelligence of a mouse. According to Moore’s Law, computing power doubles every 18 months. In other words, it increases at an extreme rate. The rapid pace of change brings fear into the eye of a technophobe and some of today’s most eminent scientists are now warning that the evolution of technology may spell the end of humankind. Even now, the greatest threat to job creation is the increasing reliance on robotics in industrial factories. Jobs that have traditionally provided a living for millions of people are quickly being turned over to a highly efficient and cost-effective robotic

Currently, there are jobs that robots can do better than humans, such as weaving and car manufacturing (Kelly 306). Again, when those machines first came to fruition, they eliminated human jobs, but then created jobs. Additionally, there are jobs that humans simply cannot do without robots such as making computer chips (Kelly 306). Looking toward the future, Kelly concludes that if we collaborate with machines and allow them to take over, we will “let them help us dream up new work that matters” (Kelly 312).

As technology advances and robots become more vital to our everyday life, machines will ruin the human race. Although, the invention of robots has created major controversy around it, according to Kevin Kelly, writer of “Better than Human: Why Robots Will—and Must—Take Our Jobs”, it is believed that increasing automation in the workplace must occur because it will benefit our society and increase productivity. He suggest that instead of essentially competing against robots we should welcome them and work alongside them. Kelly uses convincing arguments and an authoritative matter of fact tone to successfully persuade the reader, but fails to use counter arguments to further prove his argument.

Some science fiction authors have predicted horrible futures due to AI and robots taking over jobs and later humanity, but many writers like Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson (authors of The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies) dismiss this idea as one unlikely extreme. McAfee and Brynjolfsson describe in their book the nature of machines and manual labor as complements and how their slow delving into becoming economic substitutes as objectively good rather than negative. Businesses naturally do risk cutting automated jobs, but such a move would open an entire new field of jobs for humans to fix and build machines. In turn, businesses like RobotWorx argue that they can make more profit, increase wages for the quality of work from their skilled workers, and remain at the competitive level expected in the modern economic market (more extensive list can be found in their website here). Naturally, such statements beg the question that our economy would not crash because it would naturally adapt and shift due to the moves as it has when such inventions like the assembly line and textile mills came to invention.

One of the biggest controversies with the advancement of artificial intelligence is the debate on job automation. Many people believe that artificial intelligence will advance to become better than humans and replace humans in most jobs. The opposite belief is that AI will be used to improve the standard of living and will be a tool to support humans, not replace them. Job automation has many benefits such as performing more dangerous jobs and complete tasks that humans do not desire to do. Even though job automation has benefits, there are many people who believe robots will take over the job market and the unemployment rate will skyrocket. There are multiple supporting factors for each side of the job automation debate, but the argument will never be settled until AI is further advanced and utilized.

While that dystopian future may seem rather extreme, a more modest proposal would follow that robots may not be eating babies, but they uncertainly threaten the value of our time within a workplace. Machines, to many companies, are a

Technology will continue to be more productive than humans as they are programmed to never stop working and humans tend to do more pauses when they are working. Thompson happens to work for The Atlantic where he writes about economics, labor markets, and the media. Another study shows that the “International Federation of Robotics, overall paid employment has risen”which increases the productivity (Syed, R. & Qureshi, M, 2014). In Brazil, China, Republic of Korea, Germany, and USA has found increasing amounts of employment from robots overtaking menial and jobs that people can’t endure during the day due to lack of work hours. While the USA is jumping on the bandwagon of the trend of adding robots to workplaces, it is known to have only half as many robots as Germany. Stated in the Saf Health Work article it says,“this allows such an increase in production”. In return, it is more of a benefit to the company in the perspective of getting the work that needs to be done finished. Similarly, Japan’s population is always growing and this gives them a higher demand for robots to help out in hospitals and health clinics to make it run efficiently and effectively. The Saf Health Work article researches articles based off

In the present day, innovation in technology is very large. Human want to discover more and more advantages from technology. In fact, we can see how it grew in nowadays. A lot of companies have been spending their finances to invest in smarter technology. They know that if they don’t make the new things, they will be left behind. Robot is one of the best method that many companies want to invest on, and their purpose is replacing human at some fields, which can be dangerous. It is not easy to adapt robots into our life because it directly affects the labor work. Unemployed rate is still high and many government avoid using robotics in most working fields. This research is about the usage of robots in healthcare and business. For this report, the two articles that will be deeply discussed are “Are we ready for virtual physicians?” by Julie Connelly. and “Robots invade small businesses” by Kimberly J. Studer & Mark D. Dibner.

For unskilled workers, computers and machinery perform a lot of tasks these workers used to be do. In many jobs, such as packaging and manufacturing, machinery works even more effectively and efficiently. Hence, jobs involving repetitive tasks have largely been eliminated. Skilled workers are not immune to the nightmare of losing jobs. The rapid development in artificial intelligence may ultimately allow computers and robots to perform knowledge-based jobs.

Robots used to be a futuristic fantasy seen on television, and in movies. Today though, robots are becoming more prevalent in our daily lives. They are generally defined as machines that automatically perform tasks with precision. A lot of robots include a computer that controls its actions autonomously, others have a human controller, and occasionally it is a combination. As technology advances, the use of robots is rapidly growing. Their use in the workplace increases efficiency, and increases safety because they can do dangerous jobs humans would not normally do. From the first robots used in manufacturing in the 1950s to now, their technology has advanced to being used in an incredible number of fields in the present. In the future robots will create great advancements in the fields of medicine, farming, military, science, and our daily lives.

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If you think robots are the kind of thing you hear about in science-fiction movies, think again. Right now, all over the world, robots are performing thousands of tasks. They are probing our solar system for signs of life, building cars at the General Motors plants, assembling Oreo cookies for Nabisco and defusing bombs for the SWAT team. As they grow tougher, more mobile, and more intelligent, today’s robots are doing more and more of the things that humans can’t or don’t want to do and in many cases taking away the need for human labor.

Robots affect our life in a significant way as they can assist humans in a various fields of life. One of these fields is the daily chores that humans have to do. Robots can help people with their daily chores which will make humans focus more on their important jobs as they will get to work and concentrate on their tasks without worrying about the chores at home. Moreover, one special feature robots have is that they do not get exhausted or tired. They can work all day long and do not fall asleep or lose their concentration while working, unlike humans. Thus, that feature can save huge amount of effort and time as humans can relax. In addition, robots can be companions to elderly people. Richardson (2007) stated in his article that robots can act as a friend to the old people and they can help them not to feel lonely or isolated.