Cirteria C

The impact that this "uprising" of robots in the manufacturing industry has both been devastating and extremely helpful. The devastating factor of this is that unemployment has risen drastically from the substitution of humans and robots. According to www.economist.com unemployment in the manufacturing industry has risen dramatically due to many factors and of the most potent factors is the substitution of labor workers for more efficient robots. This has made a lot of people dislike robots extremely due to the fact that they can not handle the fact that they have been replaced by a non-living machine which is more efficient and reliable. The extremely good impact on society due to robotics is that nowadays with robots doing all the work death rates in the manufacturing industry have plummeted and efficiency has risen dramatically. This is mainly due the fact that robots are both safe and fast. Today important products such as medical drugs can be produced in the millions per hour due to robots thus allowing the society to acquire these drugs a lot more easily and quickly. Overall the impact that robots have imposed on the society could differ enormously due to the perspective of which the society looks through.

http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11575170
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20060519/

Cirteria B

Robotics as an area of engineering is very broad, a robot can be from anything like a robotic arm found in a manufacturing plants, or robotic waiter found in many restaurants in countries such as Japan. However, the robots which seem to be more dominant robots in the economical scale are the ones found in manufacturing plants and factories, due to the fact that they are the most demanded robots today.

The robotic arm follows commands and can tell whether its should act or not. This shows us that it has somewhat of an A.I. (Artificial intelligence). The robotic arm is given somewhat of commands from a computer which is found externally or the more usual one which is found internally. The robot process the information through a camera or any sort or sensor, and is able to follow its commends without the initial state of the robot or the object which is being altered, being the same every single time. Thus making the robot adjust to its environment allowing it to work in many different situations. Robots nowadays are even able to correct their own mistakes and are able to communicate with every other robot found within the network thus allowing the next robot to correct or finish what the previous wasn’t able to do. This sort of communication and accuracy found in robotics is why they are more preferred to humans, due to the fact that robots are more efficient both in accuracy and, in time management. However, overall the main advantage robots have is that they are changing, evolving and getting better, more efficient, and less dependent on human maintenance.

Robots vs. Human labor

The manufacturing industry is demanding industry, and for the past decade human labor had not been able to keep up with the worlds demands. Thus the manufacturing industry have replaced human workers with robots and as computers and robotics enhance ever so quickly manual labor is being left behind. The question here is whether the need for perfection and efficiency which is the result of the enhancement of robotics and IT is more important than the huge increase in the loss of employment in the manufacturing industry?