Robots!

By Brian Bondy
 
I don’t know, but I thought robots and AI would be just a perfect combination. What could go wrong?

Robots have been around for a long time. A really long time. You should look at the history of robots CLICK HERE. 

It’s a great review of some of the inventions through the ages considered to be part of the robot’s making.

I like the Automatons the best. Very mechanical, clockwork mechanisms, especially the one’s that write and look a bit human. Check out Wikipedia’s story of them CLICK HERE. 
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Okay, so the reason I’m writing this article is because a reader of the AI article mentioned the replacement of human jobs by AI. Since it’s already happening, and since robotics have been replacing humans for decades, I thought I’d poke around for some interesting things that have happened and I found one, in particular. One of my favorite YouTube science people had a video purported to be of an Elon Musk related robot. This particular beast was doing some things new to the humanoid robot world, and I thought I’d put that video..

So what are some real world applications for robots taking away human jobs? Certainly the car industry has been using robotics for decades to help build automobiles. The mining industry has been using robotics as well, arguably, that one is a great, but there are thousands of jobs lost to robots for people who may not readily be able to be retrained to do something else, and where would they do that something else anyway? It’s not like every mining town has a whole another industry for folks to work at.
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Robots are entering the food production market. Watch this short Pizza video Here. ​

While Abiquiu does not currently employ any robots, per se, there are plenty of examples of robotics taking over the food production world, though generally, we are talking about fast food products like pizza and burgers. Still, I remember seeing a bar that didn’t have a bar tender, but a robot that made and served drinks. Or maybe that was in The Shining remake.
While this may seem cutting edge, there are plenty of companies making these robots, and more and more companies buying into them.  Amazon is heavily using robotics, and they pretty much own the world. Like AI, for good and for bad, robotics are here and they aren’t going away, they are just getting started.

Here’s an interesting 20 minute video on 10 restaurants already using robots.
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