Yet our economy still craters without human workers, because the machines are far, far away from matching our intelligence and dexterity. You're more likely to have a machine automate part of your job , not destroy your job entirely. Moving from typewriters to word processors made workers more efficient.
"Robots can very successfully augment human activities," says Julie Carpenter, a roboticist and research fellow at the Ethics and Emerging Sciences Group at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. "They can do the labor we don't want to do or can't do, and are especially successful at carrying out tasks that we consider repetitive, boring, or dangerous," like lifting car doors on an assembly line, for example.
Other things to check out:
How wearable robots are helping people with paralysis walk again
Over the last few years, there have been major developments in this field, giving hope to people with spinal cord injuries, neurological disorders and strokes. The use of these devices during rehab is growing and their benefits becoming more widely recognized.
"It has been amazing to see how [the exoskeleton] affects a large group of people and not just the user," said Larry Jasinski, the CEO of ReWalk. "We affect everyone around that individual—the spouse, the children, the friends are all engaged [when the patient] regains that mobility."
Robots Rise to Battle Against Coronavirus | Voice of America - English
SAN FRANCISCO, CALF. - They are known as "Little White Snails," self-driving street sweepers that for several years cleaned up parks and other public places across China. Kids liked them.
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"Because autonomous driving technology is a new technology, in this size, maybe people can accept it easier," he said.
The machines navigate using a combination of pre-programmed maps and real-time sensing including Lidar, which sends and receives light pulses to create a 3-D scan of the ever-changing surroundings.
Spain plans to use robots to test 80,000 people a day for the coronavirus
Raquel Yotti, the head of the Madrid-based Health Institute Carlos III, said at a health ministry press conference on Saturday:
A plan to automate tests through robots has been already designed, and Spain has committed to buying four robots that will allow us to execute 80,000 tests per day.
The Spanish government has so far provided no details on how the machines will work. When they're deployed, they will join a growing range of robots tackling the pandemic.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Local robotics team wins regional competition - Register Herald
Robots-R-Us - FIRST Robotics Team 3266 - won the 2020 Miami Valley Regional competition on Saturday, Feb. 29. They will be going to the FIRST Championship at the end of April to compete.
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Robots-R-Us is a robotics team based out of Eaton and surrounding area high schools. They aim to inspire kids to pursue a career path in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and related fields. Each year, they participate in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition by building and programming a robot to compete in a game they learn at the beginning of each build session, which is only six weeks long.
Robots that admit mistakes foster better conversation in humans -- ScienceDaily
Three people and a robot form a team playing a game. The robot makes a mistake, costing the team a round. Like any good teammate, it acknowledges the error.
"Sorry, guys, I made the mistake this round," it says. "I know it may be hard to believe, but robots make mistakes too."
This scenario occurred multiple times during a Yale-led study of robots' effects on human-to-human interactions.
The study, which will publish on March 9 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , showed that the humans on teams that included a robot expressing vulnerability communicated more with each other and later reported having a more positive group experience than people teamed with silent robots or with robots that made neutral statements, like reciting the game's score.
Starship Robots Deliver Food Over Social Distances at Bowling Green
There is probably some grim metaphor in the fact that while people across the US shelter in place to avoid human contact, robots continue to roll out, making deliveries, unaware of the pandemic that surrounds them.
Ever since this outbreak started, we at The Spoon have wondered why autonomous delivery robots aren’t being used more often, especially in cities. As grocery and restaurant deliveries surge, robots could remove at least one human from the delivery equation (and they are a lot easier to scrub down after each use).
The robots are ready as the COVID-19 recession spreads
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