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This has made a lot of people dislike robots extremely due to the fact that they can not handle the fact that they have been replaced by a non-living machine which is more efficient and reliable.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/
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