Fastening, Joining & Assembly

Well,

You submit yourself totally to a robotic breaking system in your car, most of us without even thinking of it. Thats not counting the computer controlled robotic flight surface controls in most modern aircraft- you can go on forever I suppose. These things may be less visible but you rely on robotics in a lesser form and some more complex every day. The brutes of old are mostly faded away as they had little flexibility. With new flexibility built in the new variety have added a new skill set - working around us with less danger of malfunction.

So as a direct answer to your question I suppose I would come to rely on the predictability of my robotic counter part and with a certain amount of safeguards such as proximity sensors and such, work away with no thought as to the possibility of a robotic counterpart doing the task any different than it had multiple cycles it had before without deviation. Now its working next to an unpredictable, irregular, imprecise human being could kill you.

Prior to the automobile the mode of transportation was the horse. The horse would and still does some times kick and bite. So if you want to use them as transportation you have to be aware. One difference between the horse and the machine in this regard is the horse was trying to hurt you. Not that I blame the horse I would most likely show my displeasure with a kick too if you were to try to climb on to my back.

So if you are going to work around and close to moving machinery you should all ways be aware.

As far as being scared or in fear would have been a long walk with out that horse. Just as it would be a long and in some case impossible day with out the machines.

If and when safety measures are instituted they are not redundant as you have seen a problem that effects safety and met the need to provide it.

The question should be: Are Robot Safe with Human Coworkers?

Robot don't make mistakes, human does. Professionally.

hey thats just what i thought! lol.

See Isaac Asimov and the "Three Laws of Robotics". With these programmed in it would be safer to work around robots than the paranoid schizophrenics and sociopaths, the unpredictable humans that you may work beside. But even machines can malfunction, so you need a fail-safe.

I wish there is a big red stop button for some of my human co-workers