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Today, robots are doing human labor in all kinds of places. Best of all, they are doing the jobs that are unhealthy or impractical for people. This frees up workers to do the more skilled jobs, including the programming, maintenance and operation of robots.

Robots that work on cars and trucks are used for welding and assembling parts, or lifting heavy parts - the types of jobs that involve risks like injury to your back and arm or wrist, or they work in environments filled with hazards like excessive heat, noise or fumes-dangerous places for people. Robots that assemble and pack cookies or other foodstuff do so without the risk of carpal tunnel injury, unlike their human counterparts. Robots that make computer chips are working in such tiny dimensions that a person couldn't even do some of the precision work required.

In the health industry, robots are helping to research and develop drugs, package them and even assist doctors in complicated surgery such as hip replacement and open heart procedures. And the main reason robots are used in any application is because they do the work so much better that there is a vast improvement in quality and/or production, or costs are brought down so that companies can be the best at what they do while keeping workers safe.

The changes in future robots that will revolutionalize our way of living will occur in a subtle fashion. It will happen when we wake up one morning thinking about the past and realize that the things we take for granted are exceptionally different than they were when

we were younger. In time, just as innovations like the light bulb and telephone elevated life, as we know it to new standards, so will robotics incorporate itself in our everyday lives.

Discussed below are the various ways the field of robotics can affect our lives as proposed by the Robotics Industries Association.

Virtual Travel - People will be able to visit each other without traveling. They will do this by taking control of a robot at their desired vacation destination, and use the Internet to transmit all the sensory information back and forth. What will this mean? Doctors will make "house calls" again. Long distance relationships will never be the same. Families spread across the globe can play games together. And perhaps most importantly, people will think nothing of having a satisfying conversation with a mechanical contraption made of aluminum, plastic, and silicon

Housekeeping by Choice - The physical environments we live in will take care of themselves. Machines will do the routine chores around the house. We will choose when it is time for the extraordinary. Our houses and apartments will keep themselves swept and scrubbed clean. There will be no piles of laundry, and your basic dinner will be moments away. Machines will not have replaced us. But they will give us the opportunity to build on the routine and create the unusual, brilliant, or just different. Robots will raise the standard upon which we will build. They will give us a chance to dream and the time to live life to the fullest

Artificial Intelligence - Perhaps the most dramatic changes in future robots will arise from their increasing ability to reason. The field of artificial intelligence is moving rapidly from university laboratories to practical application in industry, and machines are being developed that can perform cognitive tasks, such as strategic planning and learning from experience. Increasingly, diagnosis of failures in aircraft or satellites, the management of a battlefield, or the control of a large factory will be performed by intelligent computers.

Like the term "robot" itself, artificial intelligence is hard to define. Ultimate AI would be a

recreation of the human thought process -- a man-made machine with our intellectual abilities. This would include the ability to learn just about anything, the ability to reason, the ability to use language and the ability to formulate original ideas. Roboticists are nowhere near achieving this level of artificial intelligence, but they have had made a lot of progress with more limited AI. Today's AI machines can replicate some specific elements of intellectual ability.

Despite the excitement about the development of this industry, questions about the promises and peril concerned with our increased dependence on robots arise. Some of them are discussed below.

Roboticists believe that humans will be more comfortable dealing with creatures physically similar to themselves. ASIMO, the amazing Honda robot that can dance and climb stairs, is four feet tall with arms, legs, fingers, and so forth. But ASIMO can be off-putting — all solid wire and plastic and aluminum; no warmth, no DNA. Should robots be designed in man’s image, or as something completely different?

If humanoid robots become integral to our daily lives, should they be expected to follow the laws and norms of human society, or should a new set of guidelines be drawn up especially for them? If so, what are the primary elements that need to be addressed to protect robots from humans and humans from robots?

Robots are becoming nurse-bots and roboceptionists, jobs that have most often been performed by women. Many Roboticists, the vast majority of whom are men, dismiss the danger of anthropomorphism yet frequently refer to their creations as “she.” Should robots be gender-specific? Have they already been categorized?

As robots become more pervasive in the workplace, what steps should be taken to preserve the livelihood of the human beings they replace? Should a vulnerable labor force be retrained in advance? Should protective legislation be passed?

In the near future there will be robots designed to assist surgeons replace heart valves and knees (and possibly robots to perform surgery independently). Should a patient be able to decline robot-assisted treatment, even if his insurance company considers it cost-effective?

What if the surgeon is a human using robotic remote-control technology from a hospital 1,000 miles away?

The Japanese believe that robots will be most useful as personal companions and caretakers for the elderly. Already, robots can take certain vital measurements, such as heart rates. As robots become more skilled and sophisticated, how can we ensure against a future of old people confined to institutions serviced and supervised by machines?

Human environments are fundamentally chaotic, yet robots are sensitive precision instruments that can become unreliable or agitated in unpredictable situations. How should we control environments so that robots can function consistently, and who is responsible if a destabilized robotic system damages personal property or injures a human being?

In any case, robots will certainly play a larger role in our daily lives in the future. In the coming decades, robots will gradually move out of the industrial and scientific worlds and into daily life, in the same way that computers spread to the home in the 1980s.