Ready for Robots?

On principle I refuse to go through the robotic check out lanes at any store. It reminds me of a neighbor out of work. Moreover, the robot has no idea what to do with a missing bar code and someone has to come take over for the dumb thing.

A firm NO is in place here.

I would like to state my dismay at this sort of thing and it has nothing to do with not "embracing" new technology. It has to do with "why the h#@k".

It is just a show of ability rather than the real purpose of engineering, to help or simplify.

If something is very difficult, like some types of surgery, a robot could assist and make the procedure better. This is acceptable to me as that is resulting in a good and better system. Patient has less pain and shorter recovery. Success rates are up as well.

Serving drinks by robots is a fallacy. Why on earth, in a world with abject poverty still rife and loads of people out of work, would you waste any money on something stupid as this. Only reason is to show off and that does nobody any good at all.

Nobody takes better blood than an experienced phlebotomist who will be able to talk you into feeling at ease as well as taking blood efficiently. No need for a robot there.

Let robots do what they are designed for, improving performance or doing jobs we could do wrong and die from. Reduce risk.

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I agree absolutely with what case491 has said. Robots as any artifical human made device should serve just for FOR human but not for INSTEAD. At least at present time; amid social problems that humankind is faced.

Unfortunately history shows us --- all goes the wrong way round.

A stretch from greeter to robot lawyer but they would have the same heart.

Besides A robot lawyer would know the law and not have to "practice" and then they would have to teach it to effectively lie. Of course as a full fledged Lying Attorney (called politician) the "I don't recall" would no longer cut it.

I don't have a problem with humanoid robots but how many A@@ holes will it take to evolve robots that have a problem with us?

The only way robot will not be that smart is if we regress before they can build replacement parts when then Moore's law will take effect (even if it is not what Moore said it has been some what accurate).

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Brad

I talk to robots all the time and think they are programmed to be more stupid than humans on purpose by humans who resent being asked to elimanate their jobs.

Actually now I talk on the phone less simply because of the robots that drive the bill up by not being able to understand subtle categorizations.

Less is done really.

I might be better off talking to clones than I have so far discovered with talking to robots.

Then again, we might all be better off if the robots were put in their place.

I think that you need a robotic coat to travel around the world in.

I like the exoskeleton more than I like the really bug like other guys robot.

A robot that is too big and dumb or too dumb really bothers me.

I like the vacum cleaner robot, in theory, since I don't have one, and the telephone robots are stupid.

The answer to your question is I've had to deal with robots on the phone, and so far

prefer people.

Did you get paid per word?

I for one would not mind having robots working at fast food counters, supermarkets, and factories.

First robots can be programmed to be courteous; most human retail employees have a tendency to be rude and sometimes subtly hostile.

Secondly robots unlike human beings are not apt to treat a better educated person with arrogance, or be patronising and condescending.

If human beings in retail or factory jobs do not treat their fellow employees with respect and courtesy, then they deserve to be replaced by robots, only if human beings with self-respect cannot be found to replace them.

Providing work for people with social problems has in my real life experience never solved the problems they have at home, instead they bring their social problems to the work place.

There is ample evidence of Social problems brought to the work place, when one reads in the mass media reports of people who are arrested for assaulting fellow employees, or when employers find the residue of controlled substances in work place toilets. I have known from the experience of others and my own, of situations in which personal items have been stolen from desks. A friend I know had some rings she inherited from her late mother, stolen out of her purse she'd left in a desk drawer, when she went out to get her dinner whilst she was working late. Weeks later it was found that the cleaner had been caught by security with stolen items in their locker they were transferring in a shopping bag. My friend never got her rings back, the cleaner who was an ex-con admitted stealing from the employer and fellow employees for a time before getting caught and selling the stuff. This person was so pathetic they even stole rolls of toilet paper for use at home.

When I have blood drawn by a human being the skill varies from person to person; some have been hacks who have left a painfull bruise. Robots would be developed that would have a consistent skill in drawing blood with much less pain.

Robots would be more courteous because they can handle work place stress better or wouldn't get tired towards the end of their shift.

The objections of those who oppose the introduction of robot workers are based on three things: fear, ignorance and prejudice.

In a time when there is a shortage of skilled labor, instead of employers bringing in people from the bottom of the barrel i.e. people who lack the social graces or have been ex-cons, they should bring in the cream of robotics technology, with a well-planned gradual introduction of robots into work places.