Robots may be closer then you think.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Title: Soon, That Nearby Worker Might Be a Robot
Periodical: Buisnessweek, June 1, 2010 (Internet)
Author: Rachael King


This article focuses on how robots are being used in a variety of businesses from warehouses to hospitals.  In hospitals they are being used to carry things because they are like moving shelves.  They wait for people to unload them and when they are done they will just go to their next stop.  They can talk to people because they have been programed with voices.  In warehouses they have the jobs of restocking, taking orders, and can be summoned to any spot.  These robots save money because the warehouses don't need to have air-conditioning or lights because they can work in the dark.  NASA recently developed a humanoid which they say will go to International Space Station and eventualy will do missions to dangerous for humans.  So robots are becoming more and more useful for industrial use and even commercial use.